Re: XML file and Japanese characters

["Joe Sam Shirah" <joe_sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

   Hi Ashish,

   If you have enough control over your XML generation, Thorbjrøn's 
suggestion makes sense and should pretty much work anywhere.

   AFAIK, CCSID is a double byte (only) set, so the triple bytes you see 
are, I believe, artifacts of UTF-8 encoding.  That occurs at hex values 
above 07FF.  So, you could change the encoding to UTF-16.  But that's only 
part of the story.  Other parts are the encoding you use to save the file 
and the tool you use to read it.

   I ran into an issue the other day that gave me fits and renewed my 
appreciation of what Java does for you.  It was pretty simple: a 
straightforward HTML error page for Apache that included French.  I got the 
famous boxes and question marks, even though I specified encoding in UTF-8. 
The base problem was that Windows WordPad defaulted to system encoding (1252 
I think.)  I tried saving as Unicode, but WordPad uses BOM and the browsers 
didn't like it.  I could have found a tool that would save it properly, but 
people down the road might not have it, so I owned up to my red face and 
changed the encoding to ISO 8859-1, which worked for the French characters. 
With Java in between, I never would have seen the issue at all.

   So, I believe the moral is: if you're using other than default encoding 
on your box, be sure the tools you use are capable of saving and reading the 
encodings.  HTH,


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ashish Kulkarni" <kulkarni_ash1312@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <java400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 10:05 AM
Subject: XML file and Japanese characters


> Hi
> Has any one worked with creating a XML file from database which has 
> Japanese database which has 3 byte characters.
> The AS400 file is created with CCSID 5026, i need to get data from this 
> file and create XML file, which will be send to other program
> Currently the issue is when i create XML file with UTF-8 these japanese 
> characters become some thing unreadable
> So how do i convert these characters to readable UTF-8? or do i have to 
> create XML file with some other encoding.
> Any ideas, has anyone worked with project where you are need to get data 
> from non English database into a XML file
>
> Ashish
>
>
>
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