RE: Running in EBCDIC or ASCII

["McKown, John" <John.McKown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> [mailto:java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Barbara Morris
> Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 5:37 PM
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> Subject: Re: Running in EBCDIC or ASCII
>
> McKown, John wrote:
> > All JAVA (JVM) implementations must run UTF-16 internally 
> to be called JAVA. This is a SUN requirement.
> >
>
> But there are cases where Java has to deal with non-UTF-16 data, for 
> example when converting between a String and a byte array.  The 
> file.encoding Java property controls how the byte array is 
> interpreted 
> by Java.
> -- 

Good point! I guess I am confused. I thought the file.encoding was used when the data was read or written to the file. Do you mean that if affects how Java inteprets a the bytes in a byte[] variable? Time for me to hit the books again!

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