On Wednesday 31 August 2005 19:25, Enrique Rodriguez wrote:
Duh! I get the feeling you don't understand encodings.
Run;
try
{
String string1 = "Jérôme";
String string2 = new String( "Jérôme".getBytes( "UTF-8" ), "UTF-8" );
String string3 = new String( "Jérôme".getBytes( "ISO-8859-1" ),
"ISO-8859-1" );
System.out.println( string1.equals( string2 ) );
System.out.println( string2.equals( string3 ) );
System.out.println( string3.equals( string1 ) );
}
catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e)
{
}
If you haven't got it; String does not have encoding, it is Unicode (which has
very little to do with UTF-8/16 encoding). A stream of bytes which represents
unicode characters has an encoding, and only when you convert that stream of
bytes to/from String object do you need to apply an encoding. Hence, if you
have a byte array and you want the String constructor to convert that to a
String, you need to tell it what encoding is used in the byte array.
Cheers
Niclas
