I18n: having problems when sending accents through sockets

Question

Hi, I need help. I have to send a file, plain text whith accents. Say I have the following sentence in Spanish, "hace fr�o" (it's cold); when the server gets the file, what I get is: "hace fr?o".
I'm using the following on the client side:
PrintWriter os = new PrintWriter(new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(client.getOutputStream(),
"ISO-8859-1")),true);
and the next one on the server side:
is = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(socket.getInputStream(), "ISO-8859-1"));
what am I doing wrong? I don't know whatelse I could try. I'm starting to think maybe it has to do with some configuration file in my machine (LINUX). Any idea?
Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

First of all, thanks a lot!
It does work exporting LANG; however, it doesn't work using InputStreamReader and the charset.
  Reader fichProcesar = new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(args[0]), "ISO-8859-1");
  infich = new BufferedReader(fichProcesar);
   //env?o del fichero l?nea a l?nea hasta la l?nea FIN
   while (true) {
          String lineaProcesar = infich.readLine();
          System.out.println("Linea a enviar "+ lineaProcesar);
          os.println(lineaProcesar);
          if (lineaProcesar == null) break;
    }I don't want to bother you, but I prefer the option of using fixed encoding. It's
"more portable".
Could you tell me if I did something wrong, again, this time?
Thanks a lot for your time.
FileReader uses the platform's default encoding for
reading the file. On a *nix system (like Linux) the
default encoding depends on the locale settings; if
you have not set the locale the default encoding is
US-ASCII that doesn't support accented characters.
You can either set up a locale that supports accented
characters or use a fixed encoding for reading the
file.
A locale is simply set up by setting the environment
variable LANG to some value, like "es_ES" for Spanish
in Spain. If you use the bash shell the command you
need is "export LANG=es_ES"
To use a fixed encoding use FileInputStream with an
InputStreamReader. For instance if the file is
ISO-8859-1-encoded you'd use code like
this:Reader fichProcesar = new
InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(args[0]),
"ISO-8859-1");