Default encoding

Does Java pick up a default encoding from the OS?
I'm having a problem copying data from OpenVMS to Linux (GenToo) via JDBC.
Works fine OpenVMS to Windows, but same app gets an SQLException complaining about converting UTF-8 characters when it runs on the Linux box.
Any ideas? Need more detail?

Is this the file.encoding property?Yes-ish. file.encoding is supposed (according to some documentation I saw somewhere when investigating similar problems) to be read-only. In some Sun VMs changing it affects the default encoding: in others it doesn't. The approved way of changing it is to use locales, but I couldn't find any decent documentation on this.
Does jdbc use this as well?<Shrug>.

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on windows-1251 for instance?

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Soap adapter default encoding

Hi there,
we have a XI <-> webservice scenario, where the XML messages are sent in a string (the wsdl is wrapped, literal) with digital signing.
As of now, we have a problem in the digital signing, since the webservice won't validate the signature. We made some tests and this is what I've concluded.
From what I've observed, there are three ways of sending XML file content in a string (let me know if there are more). They are:
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2. replacing '<', '>' and '"' with "<", ">" and """;
3. replacing '<' and '>' with "<" and ">".
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We tried to send three messages to a test webservice, each with a different way of defining the string, using receiver soap adapter. This test webservice was located in a local machine and we ran a sniffer on it. The three incoming messages were logged by the sniffer, but the upseting news were that the three of them had the same encoding in the input string, which was the third one above ("<" and ">", which by the way is the default by UTF-8).
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Morten,
actually, we've found out that < = < , in both UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 encodings. It makes no difference if you use one or the other.
The point which was troublesome for us were the special characters (like á,â,à,ã,é, etc) which have different encoding for UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1. Since we had identified that the service we were accessing wasn't able to identify these characters properly, we just removed them from the string fields and that worked out for us.
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Regards,
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I do have the same problem as Steathford do, I tried
to add a dingbat without success (scissor), I still
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I've never seen a case where the dingbat did not work. Could you send me an example? You need to go to your Sent folder, choose a message where you did this, and do Message > Send Again, and replace the original addressee with my email (tom at bluesky dot org).
When adding a dingbat, you must use the Character Palette as shown here, and not just change your font.
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/dingbat.jpg

How to set default encoding and charsets for jsp and servlets.

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For example in Weblogic such parameters can be set in weblogic specific configuration files (weblogic.xml).
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Hi,
I created one request with logo in the header an page in the footer etc. and called StyleSheet. After you can import this formats by each request.
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Totally wrong. A String doesn't have an encoding.
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Setting default encoding to Cp1256 in jdev 9.0.5.2

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How to make utf-8 default encoding firefox 4.0

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I tried to change the default encoding for my JVM on a SUN but when i use the java -Dfile.encoding = ISO8859_1 command, i obtain the following error:
Error occurred during initialization of VM
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Is there something wrong with my command or something that i have to take into account in order to try to change this property?
I am using the j2sdk1.4.1_02 and now i have ISO646-US an i need to use ISO8859_1 on a Sun Solaris Box
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Reasons:
1) user-friendly for new developers
2) no difference to americans
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I'm using Linux (Red Hat 8), where I have installed Java .1.4. Now when I try to parse xml feed from request.inputStream im getting wrong encoding values.
Im storing all the xmlfeeds when i receive on seperate files, but when I get the encoding for the files I get ASCII. Doesn't java have UTF-8 as default encoding? Even thought I have explicitly told that the input is utf-8 (request.setEncoding ("utf-8")) it does not work.
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1. setting request to utf-8 explicitly. request.setCaracterEncoding("utf"))2. opening bufferedStreamReader with encoding parm.
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Default encoding on linux

Hi all,
i have some problem setting the default encoding on a Linux machine.
From this url:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/corejava/intl/reference/faqs/index.html#default-encoding
http://java.sun.com/j2se/corejava/intl/reference/faqs/index.html#solaris-c
I have understood the option file.encoding is useless on linux. The jre uses the function nl_langinfo() to discovery the default encoding to use. This function is based on the LANG or LC_ALL environment variable.
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Now, on a Debian installation with kernel 2.6.6 this way doesn't work.
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I agree...but which is the right way to set UTF-8 on
debian 3.1 ?I don't think you agree, or more precisely, I don't think you mean the same thing as pifpafpuf. He probably meant that he explicitely mentions the encoding he wants to use (UTF-8) in his code. So he creates a FileInputStream and an InputStreamReader with the encoding specified, instead of using a FileWriter, which uses the default encoding. I agree, that that's the better way by far, because you can't really ever depend on a sensible default encoding.

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