invalid encoding character 2003-09-22 - By Christopher Ebert
Hi,
>>Is there any way i can catch this using xalan.( iam using xpath
>>functionality of xalan so just want to know whether i can extend any of
>>xalan features for spotting invalid encoding char )
By the time the file has been parsed, it's been converted to a Java string,
which no longer has the encoding of the original file (it's UTF-16). You need
to address this in your original file, either by setting the encoding to what
it really is (if you have characters outside of ISO-8859-1 then it's not really
encoded as ISO-8859-1) or by encoding the non-ISO characters as unicode
entities.
>Alternatively, you should be able to use the getBytes("ISO-8859-1")
>method on a string in java that will throw an
>UnsupportedEncodingException and catch that.
I don't think this does quite what you expect. UnsupportedEncodingException
will be thrown if the requested encoding is unknown. Characters that are not
supported by a known encoding turn into "?".
Chris
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