Re: Encoding conversion problem

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:03:47 -0800 (PST), Andrea
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> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :

>I have a J2EE application which connects to a DB2 configured with code
>set IBM-850. The application works with encoding ISO-8859-1.
>If I save characters outside the range sup****ted by IBM-850 (i.e. the
>euro currency character EURO) then I read garbage...

First, make sure the data are truly encoded in IBM-850.
See http://mindprod.com/applet/encodingrecogniser.html

If there are characters int that file outside the range of IBM-850,
then by definition the file is not encoded in IBM-850 and you SHOULD
expect garbage.

You can write your own translate program to handle the excess chars.

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/encoding.html

I don't know how to hook it in as an official encoding, but that is
not necessary.
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