If you can, check to see what the ® and © characters are in the Java
system. You have to be careful, because nearly anything you do to print them
out may serialize them to a character set that doesn't have them (and so print
a ?). The surest way is to print out the characters as bytes along with a '?'
and see if they match. This will tell you if you're losing the characters
because they're not in the input character set or not the correct encoding for
the character set (e.g. not in ISO-8859-1). This often happens with Windows:
Windows uses Cp 1252 as the standard encoding, which is very similar to
ISO-8859-1, but not the same, so it can look like it's working for a long
time*. If so, fix the input encoding, or change all special characters to
entities.
Chris
* See 'Dogg's Hamlet' for further discussion of the nature of this problem:
http://buedg.daig-kastura.de/stoppard/stopp2.htm
-----Original Message-----
From: Pramodh Peddi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 12:06 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Directly referenced special characters as "?"
Hi,
I couldn't solve my problem fully yet. I posted a request a couple of days
ago and the responses helped me a bit, but not entirely.
I am having an xml (source) file which has different special characters -
some of which are referenced thru entities (like ™) and others are
referenced directly (like ® and ©). The entity referenced characters are
coming up fine while transforming, but the directly referenced chars are
coming up as "?" chars.
I am using Java1.4.2's Transformer for transforming.
This is what I am doing on the Java code:
*********************************************************
if (filePath != null) {
sftp.get(filePath, rawfileOutputStream);
rawfileOutputStream.close();
}
ByteArrayInputStream rawfileInputStream = new
ByteArrayInputStream(rawfileOutputStream.toByteArray());
ByteArrayOutputStream transformedFileOutputStream = new
ByteArrayOutputStream();
File transformedFile = new File("../server/ic/deploy/data.war/" +
this.taxXSLTResult);
FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(transformedFile);
transformer.transform(
new StreamSource(new InputStreamReader(rawfileInputStream), this.dtdURL),
new StreamResult(out));
rawfileInputStream.close();
transformedFileOutputStream.close();
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********************
The source file has "windows-1252" encoding header. And in xsl, I tried xsl:
encoding="iso-8859-1" and xsl: encoding = "windows-1252". Niether of these
worked. I even tried to shange the bytes into String and again into bytes.
Nothing works.
I would really appreciate if anyone I can get any help!!
Thanks in advance,
Pramodh.
