Re: Help with utf8

From:
Francois <frarapp@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 8 Apr 2009 03:00:42 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<8eb1f36f-5225-4b9a-ad4a-8d84d5fa5f29@v15g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>
On Apr 7, 9:48 pm, Tom Anderson <t...@urchin.earth.li> wrote:

On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Francois wrote:

I read a file encode as utf8, and it has accented characters displayed
as R??mi (in gvim).

I read and parse the file

File xmlFile is the file handler.

using:
InputStreamReader in = new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream
(xmlFile), "UTF-8");
filter.parse(new InputSource(new BufferedReader(in)));

When the parsing is done, I output the file with
Writer out = new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(outfile),
"UTF-8");
filter.setContentHandler(new XMLWriter(out));

During the parsing, I substitute the attributes content using a
HashMap wich is read from another file with


I don't understand what you mean by that. Substitute how?

FileInputStream r = new FileInputStream(d);
InputStreamReader is = new InputStreamReader(r);
System.out.println("Zmodif encoding " + is.getEncoding());
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(is);
String line;
while ((line = reader.readLine())!= null){
   byte[] conv = line.getBytes("ISO-8859-1");
   String u8Line = new String(conv, "UTF8");
   ...


That looks like a really odd thing to do. What are you trying to achieve
by encoding a string as 8859-1 and then decoding it as UTF-8?

I put u8line in the HashMap and it to make the substitutions
}

My problem is that that output file has accented characters like this
R&#233;mi instead of R??mi
I don't know where it comes from and how to change it ...


That's an XML numeric character escape. &#233; means the unicode characte=

r

with code 233, which is a lowercase e with an acute accent. It's a
perfectly valid thing to find in an XML document; if the purpose of your
XML file is to be read by another program, it will be fine. If you want t=

o

encode it as a normal character, you need to tell the XML encoder to do
that rather than use an escape; i don't know what this XMLWriter class
you're using is, but that's the object which is making that decision.

tom

--
You have now found yourself trapped in an incomprehensible maze.


Thanks for replying and for the suggestion to take a closer look a the
XMLWriter use. It was com.megginson.sax.XMLWriter
and it removed the encoding attribute in the xml tag of the file
produced. Thanks also for pointing in my wrong used of reading lines.
A BufferedReader was enough.

I wanted a way to ouput everything from the input xml file, and found
a page http://www.acooke.org/cute/SAXXMLFilt0.html
 with used a TransformerHandler and a TransformerHandlerFactory to
create a contentHandler. With handler.setResult(new StreamResult
(out)) before
passing the handler to the parser I could get a parser reading a file
a giving the result to another file or to System.out. I found it a lot
easier to do the same with perl because I've found the doc much better

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