well to begin with : thx for the expalanation :D
I was wondering about your statement :
"Try logging to a file. Or better yet, create test cases, and verify
the correct operation of your code via test suite, rather than via log
statements. "
I already tried in a test case, which was to write the incoming data
to a AlertDialog, but the result was that those characters are shwon
on-screen with a rectangle with a ? in it... My idea (and test case)
would be to "stream" a list of countries, and afterwards show this
list onscreen so the user can select one...
Our problem is that the whole system I am using is based on the ISO
norm and cannot be changed to UTF-8 in a short period of time...
Or am I misinterpreting your "test cases" and "test suite" ? And if so
how should it have been interpreted ?
On 3 feb, 13:26, Bob Kerns <r...@acm.org> wrote:
> Well, you found one way to get the encoding in there. A few more:
>
> InputSource.setEncoding("iso-8859-1")
> new InputStreamReader(stream, "iso-8859-1");
>
> I'd argue that it should have gotten it from the ?<xml...
> encoding="iso-8859-1"?> -- I'm a bit surprised it didn't. But it's
> something I'd never rely on if I know the encoding.
>
> Anyway, re: your problem below. It's probably working right, up to the
> point of the log statement.
>
> The log stream is probably taking those bytes, and then later they're
> being interpreted as UTF-8. or it's taking the characters from the
> string, and interpreting them as UTF-8 (via String.getBytes()) and
> passing them off to a log stream that doesn't know about UTF-8.
>
> Try logging to a file. Or better yet, create test cases, and verify
> the correct operation of your code via test suite, rather than via log
> statements.
>
> But if you have any control or influence over the server -- fix the
> problem there. ISO-8859-* should be of purely historical interest in
> interpreting old documents. The first draft of ISO-10646 came out
> nearly 20 years ago, and UTF-8 has been around for nearly 18 years.
> The world is international. It's time to put a stake in the heart of
> these national encodings.
>
> On Feb 3, 2:55 am, MobDev <developm...@mobilaria.com> wrote:
>
> > Btw I also have tried this instead :
>
> > try {
> > URL url = new URL("http://www.myserver.com/xmlstream";);
> > URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
> > InputStream is = conn.getInputStream();
> > Xml.parse(is, Xml.Encoding.ISO_8859_1, new ExampleHandler
> > ());
> > } catch (Exception e)
> > {
> > throw new RuntimeException(e);
> > }
>
> > This time it wont just crash but for example if I print the output
> > (through Log) I get
>
> > Found attribute : Ã…land eilanden
> > and
> > Found attribute : Albanië instead of Albanié
>
> > So any input on this ?
>
> > On 3 feb, 10:44, MobDev <developm...@mobilaria.com> wrote:
>
> > > Actually this is the code for the second approach :
>
> > > /* Create a URL we want to load some xml-data from. */
> > > URL url = new URL("http://www.myserver.com/xmlstream";);
>
> > > /* Get a SAXParser from the SAXPArserFactory. */
> > > SAXParserFactory spf = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
> > > SAXParser sp = spf.newSAXParser();
>
> > > /* Get the XMLReader of the SAXParser we created. */
> > > XMLReader xr = sp.getXMLReader();
> > > /* Create a new ContentHandler and apply it to the XML-Reader*/
> > > ExampleHandler myExampleHandler = new ExampleHandler();
> > > xr.setContentHandler(myExampleHandler);
>
> > > /* Parse the xml-data from our URL. */
> > > xr.parse(new InputSource(url.openStream()));
> > > /* Parsing has finished. */
>
> > > And the error I get is :
> > > At line 40, column 23: not well-formed (invalid token)
>
> > > which is around this XML line :
> > > <Country ID="2" CName="Åland eilanden"/>
>
> > > So where should I specifiy its an ISO-8859-1 ?
> > > Also I have been debugging the app, but I actually cannot see the
> > > stacktrace, could you please direct me on how to show it on NetBeans ?
> > > Every time I try to look at the exception thrown I will see several
> > > variables but StackTrace will be null...
>
> > > On 3 feb, 06:17, Bob Kerns <r...@acm.org> wrote:
>
> > > > While I would expect your second approach to work, it's important to
> > > > note that IT IS NOT REQUIRED TO WORK.
>
> > > > The XML standard does not require XML processors to support anything
> > > > other than UTF-8 or UTF-16.
>
> > > > In this day and age, I would STRONGLY discourage use of anything other
> > > > than UTF-8, or, rarely, UTF-16.
>
> > > > Another factor to consider is how you're getting access to those
> > > > characters. You must do this one of two ways:
>
> > > > 1) Using a Reader set to read 8859-1
> > > > -or-
> > > > 2) Using an input stream, giving the raw bytes to the parser, letting
> > > > it decode the 8859-1 characters.
>
> > > > You WILL FAIL (and this is probably your problem, would be my guess)
> > > > if you try to read using a Reader that's expecting UTF-8.
>
> > > > A stacktrace should show which problem you have.
>
> > > > On Feb 2, 6:42 am, MobDev <developm...@mobilaria.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > I am downloading a xml-type file from a webserver which starts out
> > > > > with :
>
> > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
>
> > > > > afterwards I get a list with loads of countries, some countries do
> > > > > contain some letters like é and á.
>
> > > > > I have tried to extract the data of the xml in two ways :
> > > > > 1 - simply download the whole thing into a String, which will result
> > > > > in those characters being seen as something like [] or on the Android
> > > > > emulator (and device) I will see a triangle with a ? in it...
>
> > > > > 2 - fetch the list with the SAXParser and XMLReader which will just
> > > > > throw an exception telling me that there is some content error...
> > > > > specifically at the line where the first country is with such a
> > > > > character...
>
> > > > > So is there some way to get this to work ? Can I read the iso-8859-1
> > > > > encoded xml into the Parser ? Or is there some way to encode/decode
> > > > > the received data into something actually usable ?
> > > > > Any idea where the problem might be ?
>
> > > > > Thanks in advance for any hints, tips, code or explanation :D
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