Re: stream and string array

From:
Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:07:24 -0700
Message-ID:
<4a7b0dcb$0$21588$b9f67a60@news.newsdemon.com>
Simon wrote:

Since you are taking this from a HTTP connection you probably want to
specify a Charset explicitly:

  new String(data, someCharset)


Isn't the charset specified in the server response? If so, selecting
a charset other than the one used by the server would cause him
problems I should think.


Exactly, but since he is reading only bytes, new String(byteBuffer) will
not know which charset the server specified, will it? Or am I missing
something?

To be more clearly, I should not have said "a Charset", but rather the
one returned by connection.getContentEncoding().


I haven't played with URLConnection much but I believe
getContentEncoding() will return the charset used by the server. So yes
I agree that he needs to specify the charset from the connection in the
String constructor.

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