Error in reading Latin caron character(Č, č, ď, ě, ň, ř, ť, ů) in Java I18N

Question

Hi,
While reading Czech characters, some of Latin characters with caron (Ex: Č, č, ď, ě, ň, ř, ť, ů), these characters displayed as '?', we tried to fix it through generate Unicode using native2ascii tool in jdk for these characters we can't generate the Unicode properly, please give us a quick solution/references/suggestions.
String czech = "Č, č, ď, ě, ň, ř, ť, ů";
try {
System.out.println("UTF-8 czech: " + new String(czech.getBytes("UTF-8"), "UTF-8"));
System.out.println("UTF-8 ascii: " + new String(asciiCzech.getBytes("8859_1"), "8859_1"));
} catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace();
The generated unicode are: \u02d9\u0163,
Note: We tried the native2ascii for Windows-1252, Cp1252, ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-2 encoding methods.
Please give us some solution to read this type of caron characters in Java.

Answer 1

HI TheAvalanche,
I encoded the property file with ISO-8859-2 converter
The original is '+Č+, č, ď, ě, ň, ř, ť, ů'
The generated unicode is '+*\u00c4\u008c*+, \u00c4\u008d, \u00c4\u008f, \u00c4\u009b, \u0139\u0088, \u0139\u0099, \u0139\u013d, \u0139\u017b'
On looking the unicoded file for each single character the native to ascii generate two Unicode (highlighted italic).
In the console it prints like this Č, č, ď, ě, ň, ř, ť, ů.
As mentioned in the pervious reply I set the java file encoding type to the ISO-8859-2 using Eclipse-> selected java file property-> Text file encoding.
I used the following command to generate the Unicode file,
native2ascii.exe -encoding ISO-8859-2 czech.properties cs_CZ.properties
Let me know if I did any mistake on the natvie2ascii.exe
I printed the encoded string as follows
final String ascii =
"\u00c4\u008c, \u00c4\u008d, \u00c4\u008f, \u00c4\u009b, \u0139\u0088, \u0139\u0099, \u0139\u013d, \u0139\u017b";
System.out.println(new String(ascii.getBytes("ISO-8859-2"),
"ISO-8859-2"));
final OutputStreamWriter outStreamWriter =
new OutputStreamWriter(System.out, "ISO-8859-2");
final PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter(outStreamWriter, true);
writer.println(ascii);
writer.flush();
writer.close();
Thanks in advance.