Replacing german charcters with ?

Question

Hi,
I have been having this problem for past few days where the characters are getting replaced with ?
for eg this text is getting replaced with Stra�e Stra?e, when i run the program as a Standalone using java command it outputs correctly on a linux box but when it is run as a cron on the same linux box it replaces the character with a ?.
I have seen a similar thread on the same topic earlier but trying out the solutions out there havent helped.
Please help
Thanks In Advance
Someone in distress

Answer 1

can't reproduce your problem... running fedora core 4 with sun jdk 1.5.0_04
java code:import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
public class cron {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
     ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
     String str = "stra\u00dfe"; // �
     byte[] strbytes = str.getBytes("ISO-8859-1");
     out.write(strbytes);
     byte[] outbytes = out.toByteArray();
     if (outbytes[4] != (byte) 0xdf)
          throw new Exception("error converting");
     System.out.println(new Date() + " " + str);
}helper script for cron:#!/bin/bash
cd ~joni/Desktop
java -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 cron 2>&1 > cronout crontab:$ crontab -l
* * * * * /home/joni/Desktop/jcronjoboutput: cronout file on desktop contains the the current date and the word stra�e, encoded in utf-8
From where do you read the data?