Re: Encoding conversion problem

Andrea wrote:

> 
> I've made another test: I've ex****ted the content of the table with
> the crypted password and I've found that the password I can't decrypt
> back contains characters between 0x80 and 0x9F, which are control
> characters in ISO-8859-1 and Java
> - reads garbage with DB2 configured with IBM850 and JVM ISO-8859-1
> - reads correctly with both DB2 and JVM configured with ISO-8859-1
> 
> I understand the first behavior but the last point is strange... Java
> (with some "magic" :-) is doing the proper conversion if the db is
> iso-8859-1 but I can't understand how... I will test it again and let
> you know if I find something.
> 
> Thanks again everyone!
> 
> Andrea
> 
I'm guessing, but maybe if the databse tells the JDBC driver it's
ISO-8859-1 *and* your application tells it the same encoding, it won't
bother trying to transform anything... 

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