Displaying UTF-8 characters

Question

Hello all - I'm having a bit of trouble with my current project. I'm adding international support to it, I have an XML file with all the translated strings in UTF-8 format. I read it in using the following code:
          InputStream in = new FileInputStream(name);
          InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(in,"UTF8");
          BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr);
          StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
          String line = new String();
          while ((line = br.readLine()) != null){
               buf.append(line);
               buf.append('\n');
          return buf.toString();The string buffer is then sent off to be chopped up and parsed and displayed. However, for all non-latin characters, I get a question mark in a diamond. this code works in a very similar project, so I'm unsure why it is not working now, when almost all the program components are the same.
Any ideas?
thanks!
Jake

Answer 1

So the only thing that has changed is the operating system on which you are running this system?
If that's the case then it's possible that you were (accidentally or otherwise) converting between bytes and strings using the default charset on the non-Apple machine, and this happened to work for some reason. And on the Apple machine perhaps the default charset is different, and that applecart (sorry!) got upset.
And have you checked that you can actually display non-ASCII characters on your GUI setup from a simple program where you just hard-code those characters?