Topic: problem converting from UTF8 to ISO8859_1

problem converting from UTF8 to ISO8859_1

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Posted By: sashank_rao
Posted On: Monday, May 20, 2002 12:57 AM

Hi, I am converting a variable from UTF-8 to ISO8859_1 using - String cat[] = null; cat = request.getParameterValues("var1"); String catName = new String(cat[i].getBytes("UTF8"),"ISO8859_1"); The problem I face is, on conversion, catName has a whole lot of "??????" prefixed to the actual value. Why do the prefixed question marks appear and how do I do away with the same to get the actual converted value ? Shall be really thankful for all the suggestions provided. More>>

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Re: problem converting from UTF8 to ISO8859_1

Posted By: sashank_rao
Posted On: Thursday, May 23, 2002 01:50 AM

Firstly, Thanks for looking into my problem.

Also, the extra question marks were being prefixed because I was executing request.setCharacterEncoding("ISO8859_1")twice.

I commented out one of the request.setCharacterEncoding("ISO8859_1") from an earlier jsp page and then I was returned the correct value.

Thanks once again.

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Re: problem converting from UTF8 to ISO8859_1

Posted By: timj_das
Posted On: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 06:55 AM

I guess the String byte array u are getting using cat[i].getBytes("UTF-8") is not returing the bytes correctly, so the conversion in the next step is messed up.
Try using new String(cat[i].getBytes(), "ISO-8859-1");

Hope this helps!

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