how to deal with franch character in java inside string

I think this will help u

String src = "French text";

byte[] utf8SrcBytes = src.getBytes("UTF8");

String utf8SrcString = new String (src.getBytes("UTF8"), 0, utf8SrcBytes.length, "UTF8");

convert string in to bytearray and again byte array into string

AmitChalwade123456a at 2007-7-29 19:02:31 >

> I think this will help u

Maybe not, because it's not even determined where the problem lies. Maybe the way the file is read is crappy, or the way it's handled in the program is, or the way it's sent to the DB is, or the way the DB stores it is, or the way he looks at the stored data is.

CeciNEstPasUnProgrammeura at 2007-7-29 19:02:31 >

Maybe your file editor was set up to read UTF8 and your program worked correctly...

CeciNEstPasUnProgrammeura at 2007-7-29 19:02:31 >

String utf8SrcString = new String (src.getBytes("UTF8"), 0, utf8SrcBytes.length, "UTF8");

This advice is worse than useless. All it does is convert the string to a byte array and back again; it doesn't even change anything. You're probably thinking of a trick some people use to retroactively change the encoding of Properties files from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8, but that's a bad practice, too. If you want to write text to a file using the UTF-8 encoding, you use an OutputStreamWriter, like so: FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("out.txt");

OutputStreamWriter osw = new OutputStreamWriter(fos, "UTF-8");

To read UTF-8 text, use an InputStreamReader: FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream("in.txt");

InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(fis, "UTF-8");

If the file has already been read with the wrong encoding, you have garbage. Using tricks involving getBytes() and new String() may seem to fix it, but the data is still corrupt, and eventually it will cause very hard-to-find bugs.

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uncle_alice

Forgot to include the encoding for the InputStreamReader

uncle_alicea at 2007-7-29 19:02:31 >