Foreign Characters in LoadVars

My application sends user text to a database server using the sendAndLoad. The only problem is that foreign characters are not being sent properly. Räul gets received as RÃ¤ul9. Is there something I have to do in order for the loadvars to not encode the text.
Heres my LoadVars code.
var ChatLog_lv = new LoadVars();
ChatLog_lv.LASCmd = "AI:4";
ChatLog_lv.ChatRoomKey = application.RoomKey;
ChatLog_lv.ChatRoomLog = cChatLog;
bSuccess = ChatLog_lv.sendAndLoad("http://"+application.Server,ChatLog_lv,"POST");
Thanks in advanced for anyone that can send some light into this issue.

I am also having the same issue since my updates, and i find that the extra characters change (without me doing anything) each time i connect my iphone to my computer (vista).
Also since the updates, i was getting the blue screen of death when connecting my iphone to my pc, but after re-downloading the software & re-installing, i have not had any issues in regards to my pc crashing.
Not sure if the two are related somehow or if something has become corrupt on my pc.
Is there any information on this one yet?
Cheers,
Shelle

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buffer.append( line + "\n" );
System.out.println("" + buffer.toString() + "");
          catch(Exception e) {
               e.printStackTrace();
Error Message:
sun.io.MalformedInputException
at sun.io.ByteToCharUTF8.convert(ByteToCharUTF8.java:110)
at java.io.InputStreamReader.convertInto(InputStreamReader.java:137)
at java.io.InputStreamReader.fill(InputStreamReader.java:186)
at java.io.InputStreamReader.read(InputStreamReader.java:249)
at java.io.BufferedReader.fill(BufferedReader.java:139)
at java.io.BufferedReader.read(BufferedReader.java:157)
at mtrack.cda.utils.LoadUTF8.getUTF8(LoadUTF8.java:25)
at mtrack.cda.utils.LoadUTF8.main(LoadUTF8.java:15)
NB:- It works fine with normal text files that doesn't have any foreign character!
If either of getUTF8() or loadUTF8Data() functions work, i will be very happy!!! :-)

Hi Pratim,
Your code is absolutely correct and can be adapted to read in any foreign characters as long as you create your InputStreamReader with the same encoding that was used to write the file you are trying to read. By default, java encodes files in a format called Cp1252. Cp1252 can be used to encode ASCII characters (\u0000->\u007f) + an extended region (\u0080->\u00ff). This extended region contains, among other characters, the extra characters used by languages like Spanish, German etc. To read such a file, change your code to:
InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(fis, "Cp1252"); However, if one wants to encode characters beyond \u007f (for example, Chinese, Hindu, Russian etc.) then one cannot use Cp1252 encoding. Frequently, such characters are encoded using UTF8 (Unicode Transformation Format 8). UTF8 is capable of encoding the entire unicode character set. There are many many different encodings supported by java. The point is that you must to use the same encoding to read back the characters as was used to store them.
I suggest that you experiment with writing characters to files and reading them back into java using different encodings. You already have the code to read the characters. To write the files, you can either use Microsoft Word or you can write code analogous to your code above except using the OutputStreamWriter. It will also be helpful to you if you have some way of examining the bytes in your output files.
Regards,
Joe

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Any Body, please
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That's not how it's supposed to work according to this: http://www.griffintechnology.com/support/italkpro/
By default, a playlist will be created in iTunes called "Voice Memos" and those files will be transferred there automatically. The files themselves can be found on your computer in your iTunes Music folder in Unknown Artist > Unknown Album.
It may be worth working through any trouble shooting articles on that site.
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I'm using Microsoft Word on my Mac OS X 10.5.8, and when downloading forms with chinese characters, upon opening the document I'm unable to view the foreign characters. What appears are squares instead. Can anyone help me with this?
I already have set up the 'languages' setting where I'm able to switch between english and chinese simplified characters so I can TYPE using foreign characters, but some how I can't view it on downloaded docs.

I'm using Microsoft Word on my Mac OS X 10.5.8, and when downloading forms with chinese characters, upon opening the document I'm unable to view the foreign characters. What appears are squares instead. Can anyone help me with this?
Try opening your stuff with TextEdit or OpenOffice.
What version of Word are you using?
A forum devoted to Word problems is here (but you must always tell people what version, it makes a lot of difference):
http://www.officeformac.com/ProductForums/Word/

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