Re: Stupid question regarding encoding

From:

Daniel Moyne <dmoyne@tiscali.fr>

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comp.lang.java.help

Date:

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:42:24 +0100

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a249@mailinator.com wrote:

On 19 Feb., 10:55, Daniel Moyne <dmo...@tiscali.fr> wrote:

I have written a java plugin for an application that reads a file to
execute a series of actions ; when I parse my text file I check for the
existence of the following line "#HEADER" ; it works fine on my equipment
; on Windows somebody working with the text file encoded in utf-8 told me
that there is problem as the line containing "#HEADER" is not found !

Now I am a little bit puzzled about all this :

(a) when you write java code and compile it what happens to the
string "#HEADER" because it will be used in the following test :
if (line.equals("#HEADER") {...}
where line is read from the text file with encoding as is on the machine
where the class is executed ? in other words you are comparing what to
what ?

It is not how Java compiles the "#HEADER" literal. It is how you open
and read the file. Fix that.

Please can you be more specific here ; for you information I use this to
read my text file line by line :
I get fileName (File object) from JFileChooser
Then I do this :
BufferedReader entree=new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fileName));
do {
        /* we parse text file line by line */
        fileTextLine=entree.readLine();
        .................
} while (fileTextLine != null) ;

In this there is no encoding check !
Thanks.