outputting iso-8859-1 chars
Morten Poulsen
morten@afdelingp.dk
Thu Apr 25 02:00:00 GMT 2002
On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 01:02, Tom Tromey wrote:
> You don't say what platform you're on. I assume you're on Linux.
Yes, Linux 2.4.14 on a PIII and a 7400.
> On Linux the Sun JVM assumes that the C locale uses ISO-8859-1, when
> in fact it uses ASCII. libgcj respects this difference and outputs
> just ASCII, meaning that character > 0x7f is printed as `?'.
When I set my locale to da it still outouts a '?'.
> FYI, `gcj --encoding' tells gcj the encoding of your .java file. it
> doesn't affect the runtime behavior of your program (well, it can,
> since a given sequence of bytes in the input file can have a different
> meaning).
If I don't use it, I get
Hello.java:4: unrecognized character in input stream.
even for ISO-8859-1 characters in comments.
> Your problem is almost certainly on the printing end of things. Try
> setting your locale to something that uses ISO-8859-1. Or try using
> `new OutputStreamWriter (System.out, "ISO-8859-1")'
Thanks, that fixed it. I had the same problem when writing danish
characters to a socket. Inserting the above code fixed it there too.
Thanks for the help,
Morten
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