Java unicode encoding

Question

hello,
possibly this is very simple, so dont laugh. an application i'm writing displays an XML document as a JTree for editing. Within the XML document I have hardcoded Unicode IPA extensions, which show up perfectly in the JTree and JTextAreas. The problem is I dont know how to copy the original Unicode encoding into another document. I want to be able to write the original encoding (something like ʃ) to another file. As it is, it seems to be getting converted into a string and then when I copy it, the new document doesnt contain the Unicode and wont display the symbols. Thanks for any help

Answer 1

I have the similar problem as you.
I try to write an xml file encoded with UTF-8 to Unix Solaris. I have set locale to UTF-8 on Unix . I compile my java source under Windows machine with ant which javac is encoded in UTF-8. Database(Informix) is also set to UTF-8. I can enter special characters such as Spanish from web page and save to Database and bring it back to web page. It all displays correctly. But when i try to get the data with special characters from database and write a xml file into Unix and I use different editors such as Word, Notepad, Unix vi, UltraEditor to open this xml file, the content is all garbage. My code to write the xml file is :
StringBuffer xml = new StringBuffer();
xml.append(data from database);
FileOutputStream fw = new FileOutputStream("test.xml");
log.info("-----------System Encoding: " + System.getProperty("file.encoding") + "---------");
OutputStreamWriter writer1 = new OutputStreamWriter(fw, "UTF-8");
writer1.write(xml.toString());
writer1.close();
the log file displays System Encoding: UTF-8