You get a String..... and that's that !!
Regards
Cherag
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From: guillaume ORIOL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 2:33 PM
Subject: true String or not true String ?
> In his book "Java Servlet Programming" (chapter 12 about i18n),
> Jason Hunter explains how a servlet gets a field value from a form
> and how to convert the value when the charset is exotic.
>
> 1 String text = req.getParameter("text");
> 2 BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(
> 3 new InputStreamReader(new StringBufferInputStream(text), charset));
> 4 text = reader.readLine();
>
> Jason says the text String in line 1 gets the text as is. But although
> it is stored in a String object, it is not a true String?!
> As far as I know, java String objects are Unicode encoded, so my question
is:
> what do you get with a request.getParameter("field") ?
> - a true java String translated by the servlet engine from a particular
> charset to Unicode
> - a strange java String still encoded in the charset of the HTML page
>
> Thank you for your answer,
> guillaume ORIOL
>
>
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