You need to identify the input encoding/charset and, in Java, instantiate an InputStreamReader with the correct encoding name. Then you get proper Unicode strings, and there will be nothing "special" about Polish characters.
Please read the documentation on java.sun.com about how to process text in Java. There is a tutorial about Internationalization that covers text encodings.
markus
SRIDHARAN Aravind wrote:
Hi Mark!
Markus...
The thing is that I get data from mainframe. And my client is from Poland. And in our application, we have 2-language support (english and polish). And I am responsible for generating PDF reports in Java.
For Polish language, I employ a function which converts special character strings that I get them displayed properly on PDF's.
For English language, I do not employ any such function.
A few days ago, my client entered data with special characters( some polish characters) in the english language application. Since I don't employ the convert function for english language, in the PDF, the special characters( my client keyed-in or from mainframe) came as junk.
And the client said he would not accept this. Irrespective of the language, I could employ the convert function I wrote. But I have a second thought. Why not I have something that detect a string with special characters? If not possible, on a final basis, I thought of applying the convert function I wrote for both languages.
This was the reason that made me post a question yesterday in the unicode group.
Aravind
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