Need help for UTF-8 Encoding comparison problem

Question

Hi, all
I'm doing some unit testing for comparing two xml results. The problem is they are using "UTF-8" encoding. After I grab them out, I don't know how to compare them in order to get expected result. I have tried IOUtils and set the system properties by System.setProperty( "file.encoding", "UTF-8" ); None of them works. Anyone can give me a hand? Thanks
Edited by: AllenZhao on Nov 12, 2007 1:38 PM

Answer 1

rayon.m wrote:
hunter9000 wrote:
What exactly are you trying to compare? Are they files, Strings in memory, streams? Remember that encodings only come into play when you convert text from Strings in memory to bytes on disk (or some other external source, like an output stream).eh?
Encodings are rather important when you read a file.Yes, you're right, thanks. I got lazy and assumed the OP knew I was only talking about outputting Strings, without actually stating that, so I forgot to describe the other half of the process. Posting this close to quitting time is a bad idea ;)