Adding new character encoding to PBP

Question

is there any way to add new character encoding in PBP1.1..?
.I want it to support japanese encoding

Answer 1

1) Derive MyDateFormat from SimpleDateFormat only allowing the default constructor.
2) Override the public void applyPattern(String pattern) method so that it detects the 'Q' and replaces it with some easily identifiable pattern involving the month (say �MM� ) and then call the superclass applyPattern method.
3) Override the public StringBuffer format(Date date,
            StringBuffer toAppendTo,
            FieldPosition fieldPosition)
      method such that if first calls the superclass method to get the formatted output and then corrects this output by replacing (using regular expressions) the �01�, �02� etc with the appropriate quarter.
You might do better to not to actually derive a new class from SimpleDateFormat but just create a class which uses SimpleDateFormat.