Re: Encoding conversion problem

Hi Lothar,

> > I have a J2EE application which connects to a DB2 configured with code
> > set IBM-850. The application works with encoding ISO-8859-1.
>
> In general the JDBC-driver is aware of the encoding, the database
> is using and is doing the conversion already if you access the
> column by getString(columnName/index).
Yes I fetch the string with Resultset.getString(index). I use DB2
Universal Driver with a type 4 connection.


> > I tried encoding conversions with InputStreamReader and
OutputStreamWriter:
> > ...
> > BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new
> > InputStreamReader(source, "IBM850"));
>
> What is source? How do you create that from the JDBC-
> resultset?

I tried:
InputStream source = new
ByteArrayInputStream(stringFetchedFromDB.getBytes());

Thanks,
Andrea