Hallo, how to read in and display national characters in a Java GUI program? Configuration: Linux RH 6.1, KDE with Polish locales + JDK117_v3. There are 2 main char encodings in Poland: Cp1250 (Win32) and iso8859_2 (Unix). I have following 3 files, containing PL national characters: pol.iso8859_2 (8859_2 encoding) pol.cp1250 (Cp1250 encoding) pol.unicode (Unicode encoding) I have also a GUI program, which reads a file using InputStreamReader with a particular encoding (this can be set thru a Choice object). Next a string is constructed and displayed in TextArea. The sequence looks like: File --> char[] --> String --> GUI Now, what I would expect is, when I load eg. pol.iso8859_2 using 8859_2 encoding I should see proper PL characters. One could draw the following table: File/Encoding 8859_2 Cp1250 Unicode pol.iso8859_2 ok pol.cp1250 ok pol.unicode ok This does work on WinNT, unfortunately it does not work on Linux. The only combination which works is: pol.iso8859_2 with 8859_1 encoding (!?). 8859_1 is also the default encoding on Linux (!?), although LANG is set to pl_PL. Now, my questions are: 1. Why 8859_1 is the default encoding? 2. Why the table above "does not work" on Linux? 3. Why does pol.iso8859_2 "work" with 8859_1? 4. It is very interesting to know what happens during the last step: String --> GUI. I suppose String is converted to the default encoding, but I am not sure. If you wish I can post a simple program and pol.* files to demonstrate the problem. Thanks and best regards Marek Gmyrek. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
