On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:57 PM, James Agnew <[email protected]> wrote:
> The character encodings are only ever applied when the message is
> transmitted over a network socket using a LowerLayerProtocol impementation
> (either MLLP or HL7-over-HTTP). At all other times, HAPI uses Java Strings
> to represent any textual data, which means that everything is in UTF-16.
>
This is consistent with the test that I ran after setting JVM system
property "-Dca.uhn.hl7v2.llp.charset=UTF-8".
> In other words, setting the system property you mentioned will mean that
> if you create a new client with no other configuration, once your
> application connects to a remote server it will encode your message in the
> given charset before sending it.
>
Yes, this is what I discovered. Thank you for the explanation!
FWIW, there is a page in the HAPI examples section that shows some
> alternate ways of specifying the charset. Personally I hate using system
> properties..
>
>
> http://hl7api.sourceforge.net/xref/ca/uhn/hl7v2/examples/HandlingCharacterEncodings.html
>
Thank you for the reference. I was hoping there was another option
available to set the character encoding.
Derek
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