JAVA Chinese in Symbian OS

Question

Hi, all...
I'm currently writing a small program for Symbian OS (mobile OS) which used Unicode as the default system encoding.
The Symbian OS only supported JDK 1.1.8... nothing much I can use.... hmm...
I have a few questions that is confused me.
I'm using following code to read an big5 encode text file:
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
      new InputStreamReader(
      new FileInputStream(modeName(iMODE,true)),"MS950"));and the format of the file is:
<index> <word1> <word2> <word3> ....<wordn>
aaaaa cWORD1 cWORD2 cWORD3 ....
aaaab cWORD4 cWORD5 cWORD6 ....
aaaac cWORD7 cWORD8 cWORD9 ....
etc... cWORD? are big5 encoded characters
I'm wandering, if I use the code above to process the text, then I try to setText("cWORD1") to the TextArea, will JAVA convert to the Unicode automatically?
Do I need to convert the read-in file into Unicode first?
In short, do I have to do anything with the text file (such as change encoding)? or do any convertion during the processing? or just leave it, JAVA will handle the encoding?
Any help/idea/hint?
thanks,
Rick,

Answer 1

It is more accurate to talk about JVM rather than System.
There are at least two types of outputs.
1) Output through the java.io package.
In this case you can use your encoding (e.g., UTF8 or other) when writing or printing in a file, for example.
E.g.
BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream("output.txt"),"UTF8"));2) In the case of your using the package java.awt and the method <java.awt.Graphics>.drawString(String, int, int), you do not have to worry about the encoding. For example the next will show a sequence of meaningful chinese characters (though the sentence was taken arbitrarily from a book at hand).
//import java.awt.*;
class TestPanel extends Panel {
  public void paint(Graphics g){
    g.drawString("\u9020\u5206\u5929\u5730\u5316\u6210\u842c\u7269", 40, 40);// here you do not refer to the encoding
}// add an instance of this class to a suitable java.awt.Frame instance