Matthias Bräuer wrote:
Hello,
I'm having problems reading Chinese data from an XMLConfiguration. The
configuration file is encoded in UTF-8. For instance, in my test file
the attribute 'name' of the element 'source' is called "我的文件"
(Chinese for "My files"). When I request this value from the
configuration I get back "我的文件" which obviously is the result
of some wrong character decoding.
The 'name' attribute is used as a key for a HashMap. Consequently,
searching with the key '我的文件' (the original Chinese characters)
does not return the entry because apparently the hash code of this
Unicode string differs from what the XMLConfiguration returned. Also,
printing the name on a JLabel with a Chinese-capable font like
"SimSun" gives the wrong result listed above. However, when I write
the configuration back to a file, the correct Unicode characters are
written.
I used the following code fragment to investigate the problem:
XMLConfiguration config = null;
try {
config = new
XMLConfiguration("tests/conf/sources_chinese.xml");
}
catch (ConfigurationException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
String name = config.getString("source(0)[EMAIL PROTECTED]");
String name2 = "我的文件";
When I use a debugger to check the memory content I see the
correct Chinese characters in the debug view for the (manually
constructed) 'name2'. However, the variable 'name' (which is read from
the XMLConfiguration) shows the garbled "我的文件" string.
It appears to me that XMLConfiguration reads and writes in a different
format than UTF-8 which, however, would be a bit strange. I had no
time today to check this in the sources. Maybe someone on the list has
experienced similar problems. Please do not point me to the Java
internationalization pages, I've browsed through these a long time. :-)
Thank you very much in advance,
Kind regards from Taiwan, Matthias
I am no expert for encoding of Chinese characters, so I am not sure
whether this really helps: XMLConfiguration allows you to specify the
exact encoding you want to use by calling the setEncoding() method. This
method must be called before load(). Did you try this?
Note also that in configuration 1.1 final there was a bug that the
encoding was not always taken into account
(http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34204). So you might
want to check out the newest version from SVN.
HTH
Oliver
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