Re: Mixing text and binary I/O
"Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> wrote in message
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Ivan Voras wrote:
I don't know how to build this in general. It's mostly straightforward
to build for a specific encoding, say UTF-8, but CharsetDecoder has no
method that means "decode exactly one character". (I suppose you could
give it one
Hmm, ok. This is a slight problem (and IMO a candidate for rectifying),
but for my current purpose, I can limit it to UTF-8 and use the sort-of
implementation in DataInputStream.
Based on a previous attempt to use CharsetDecoder "raw", I suggest that
you at
least consider not using one at all, but doing your own UTF-8 {en/de}code
logic
instead.
Here's a place where I wish Java had output parameters; the signature I'd
want for readChar is
/** @returns a character in the range 0 to 65535, or -1 at EOF
* @param moreDecoded returns true if another character is available
without consuming more bytes
*/
int readChar(out boolean moreDecoded);
As it is, I suppose a moreDecoded() method is the least of evils, i.e.
better than forcing the client to check that the returned character is in
the range D800-DBFF.
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