charset problem - UTF-8 2003-02-21 - By Scott Eade
Okay, I'll answer my own question:
1. The character /u2019 will not be converted to a character reference when
UTF-8 is used (it will use two bytes and will not be displayed correctly in
applications that do not correctly deal with UTF-8 - e.g. Windows notepad).
2. In the cases where character references are used an editing component is
causing them to be encoded - the component is not being used in the places
where the characters are not encoded.
3. Windows file encodings are a PITA.
4. I know more now than I did before.
Sorry for the noise.
Scott
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On 21/02/2003 6:42 PM, "Scott Eade" <seade@(protected)> wrote:
> I have had a brief scan of the mail archive and not come across anything
> like this, but that said, I am not sure of exactly where this problem bight
> be coming from.
>
> Here is what I have:
> 1. Some data in a MySQL database that contains "right single quotation
> marks" (UTF Hex 2019) - thanks to the content being pasted in from MS Word.
> 2. The data is included in a CDATA section in a jdom-b8 tree.
> 3. A jdom XMLOutputter created with the encoding set to UTF-8
> XMLOutputter outputter = new XMLOutputter(" ", true, "UTF-8");
> 4. A HttpServletResponse with ContentType set to "text/xml; charset=UTF-8".
> HttpServletResponse response = whatever...;
> response.setContentType("text/xml; charset=UTF-8");
> 5. The Writer for the response is used to output the content
> outputter.output(doc, response.getWriter());
> response.flushBuffer();
>
> Now the trouble is that the /u2019 characters do not seem to be written
> correctly to the output stream (I am expecting to see "’" as a
> replacement for these characters, but instead I am seeing the square block
> placeholder - platform is win2k).
>
> I am at a loss of what to try. I have gone from jdom-b7 to jdom-b8 and from
> xercesj-1.3.0 to xercesj-2.0.2 to xercesj-2.3.0 and the problem persists.
>
> Interestingly some other characters are being correctly converted to their
> character entity references, but then sometimes they are not in the same
> document.
>
> Any clues would be most welcome. I'll probably try the jdom list as well.
>
> Thanks in advance for any replies.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Scott
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