I understand all these. The problem is that this is the way the data comes
to me from a 3rd party application, with encoded DC hexa. This sample app I
just created it in order to show my problem. 

Any ideas?  

-----Original Message-----
From: Raman Gupta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 9:08 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Encoder error

Burca Ciprian wrote:
> I receive from a 3rd party application a message containing a hexa 
> char "DC". When I try to decode, I get an error. The character should 
> be Ü. Here is a simple application that shows my problem:

You need to be consistent with your encodings. You specified a UTF-8
decoder, but the DC encoding for Ü is not UTF-8, its ISO-8859-1 (and several
others: http://www.eki.ee/letter/chardata.cgi?ucode=00dc). The
UTF-8 encoding is C39C.

The foolproof way to create the String with that character that avoids
potential issues with javac using default platform encodings -- see
native2ascii):

String s2 = "\u00dc";
byte[] b2 = s2.getBytes("UTF-8");

Cheers,
Raman Gupta

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