Thanks Dale, I am going to keep fighting this thing this week, maybe I'll get somewhere.
-Matt --- Dale Anson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Matt, > > Just this past week I ran into a problem using > slightly different jdk > versions on Solaris. One had the default character > encoding as > ISO-8859-1, the other had ISO-656-1. That was enough > to break things for > me. My solution was to use a Writer/OutputStream > that allowed me to set > the encoding type. It seems to me that jdk 1.2 used > 8859-1 by default > and it wasn't possible to change the encoding. With > jdk 1.4, there are a > number of the java.net and java.io classes that let > you specify the > encoding. > > Hope this helps! > > Dale > > > Matt Benson wrote: > > > Ack! I am in the final stages of I/O redirection. > In > > fact, I was about to commit my changes when I > > cross-tested my last test case--transcoding--and > found > > that it fails on Solaris with Sun JDK 1.4.2, but > > passes with Sun JDK 1.2.2. Does anyone have any > > helpful information on this phenomenon? Input > > encoding seems to be okay, but whenever I try to > write > > output with a particular encoding, the results are > not > > what I expect. Often the resulting files are the > > wrong size, but sometimes they are the right size > with > > the wrong content as well. Obviously since my > code is > > nowhere accessible I'm not looking for specific > help > > (yet)... just if anyone knows of any common > pitfalls > > I'd love to hear about them. > > > > Thanks, > > Matt > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Search - Find what you’re looking for > faster > > http://search.yahoo.com > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]