Saving Croatian characters in XML file

Question

Hi,
I'm trying to save Croatian characters into an XML file by using the windows-1250 encoding. For some reason, that doesn't work. Only the � and � characters (in upper and lower case) are OK. All other characters turn into ? signs, if you open the xml file.
Here's my code:
import org.dom4j.DocumentHelper;
import org.dom4j.Element;
import org.dom4j.Document;
import org.dom4j.io.XMLWriter;
import org.dom4j.io.OutputFormat;
import java.io.*;
public class test {
  public static final String ENCODING = "windows-1250";
  public static void main( String[] args ) {
    Element root = DocumentHelper.createElement( "XMLTest" );
    Document doc =  DocumentHelper.createDocument( root );
    Element elem = root.addElement( "t1" );
    try {
      String test = "čć��đČĆ��Đ";
      String x = new String(test.getBytes( ) , ENCODING);
      elem.setText( x );
      OutputFormat format = OutputFormat.createCompactFormat();
      format.setEncoding( ENCODING );
      format.setTrimText( false );
      FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream( new File( "testtest.xml" ) );
      XMLWriter writer = new XMLWriter( out, format );
      writer.setEscapeText( true );
      writer.setMaximumAllowedCharacter(255);
      writer.write( doc );
      writer.close();
    catch ( UnsupportedEncodingException e ) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    catch ( FileNotFoundException e ) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    catch ( IOException e ) {
      e.printStackTrace();
}Thanks in advance for any help.
Greet

Answer 1

I assume that your java file has been saved in an encoding that can support the croatian characters?
The problem is then probably in this area:
String test = "čć��đČĆ��Đ";
String x = new String(test.getBytes( ) , ENCODING);
elem.setText( x );There is no need to encode a String. The only time an encoding becomes important is when converting from a String to bytes or converting bytes into a String.
Try this instead:
elem.setText("čć��đČĆ��Đ");By the way, there should be no need to escape the text in the XMLWriter.