Default Character Set using JSObject

Hi All,
This problem has been nagging me for a while and am now resorting to this forum for an answer.
I have a jsp page with an embedded applet. Inside the applet, I read the HTML page using JSObject.
The problem is when using the JSObject to get values of controls from the HTML page with Japanese characters.
The HTML page is encoded in UTF-8, however, when I get values from the controls using JSObject in the applet, the values returns as ???. Latin characters are supported but not Japanese characters. So.. I'm wondering what character set the JSObject supports when converting a Javascript string to a Java String.
The following code is executed:
          JSObject win = JSObject.getWindow(this);
          JSObject doc = (JSObject) win.getMember("document");
          JSObject forms = (JSObject) doc.getMember("forms");
     JSObject form = (JSObject)forms.getSlot(0);
          JSObject title = (JSObject)form.getMember("title");
String titleValue = (String)title.getMember("value");
I've also tried form.eval("document.forms[0].title.value") and that returns the same ??? for japanese characters.
Any ideas?
Kent

Hi Larry,
The characters that appear at the beginning of each file - ï»¿ - is the BOM or byte order mark for UTF-8, which is automatically added to the file on creation. These files are UTF-8 encoded, to allow for the support of multi-byte characters. An updated version of the Exporter Tool removes these BOM characters. Please contact Support to obtain this updated version of the Exporter tool.
Alternatively, you can try the following:
If the character set of your Oracle database is not UTF-8, then you have two options:
1) If possible, change the character set of your database to UTF-8. To check the current database characterset, check the "NLS_DATABASE_PARAMETERS" table.
or
2) Open the generated .dat files using Notepad, then use the File | Save As menu option, and set the "Encoding" to ANSI, then save the file. The BOM will now be removed from the .dat files.
I hope this helps.
Regards,
Hilary

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