Export strings - xstream

Question

I'm using the free package Xstream to export my objects to an XML file. Works nicely except one aspect. Since I'm i a non-english country some special characters may occur in strings in the object I export wich causes problem when the XML files are loaded on a different system than it was saved in. The classical UNIX - Windows ASCII table problem.
So how can I make Xstream export in a system-independent format? Or more simply; if I have a String - how can I convert it to a String with escape sequences as in a properties file? And back.
Pls
/Tomas

Answer 1

Ok, now I have tried a bit, but only on a Windows
machine - no export to other systems.
I have a couple of Q's:
* If the XML is correctly formed, specifiyng a
characther encoding, hen IE and FF should be able to
disply it correctly?If your XML is correctly formed, specifies a character encoding and indeed uses that character encoding then both IE and FF should be able to display it (providing you have the correct fonts and those programs know how to use them).
* Is UTF-8 extensive enough to be used together with
special characters like � � � � � UTF-8 can encode every single Unicode character. Everything that has a unicode value can be encoded in UTF-8
Reason for asking is that if my XML file has the
following format:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<object-array>
<string>Tecken � � �</string>
You should check what file encoding is really in use: Use the HexEditor of your choice and check that every character in your file is represented by exactly one byte, except for �, � and �, which should take 2 bytes. If that's true chances are quite good that you're writing valid UTF-8. If every character uses two bytes (with the first byte usually beeing 0x00) then you're using UTF-16 encoding.