On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Paul Deuter wrote: >However I would prefer not to have to write special code to re-interpret >data after the fact. Also there are other standard classes which also >seem to assume iSO-8859-1 as the default character set (such as >URLDecoder an URLEncoder). I think that'll change in Java SDK 1.4. The default will become UTF-8 for the URLEn/Decoder classes. The current implementation is a hack overall (it defaults to platform default encoding, but cannot deal with a wide local charset -- bits above the eighth one are truncated). Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], gsm: +358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front

