Special character storage

Question

Berkeley DB XML V2.3.10
Hello,
I use Berkeley DB XML iin order to store a large amount of data. This data contains some special characters like french character, quotes,...
I insert the documents with a java batch.
When I retreive the datas from the berkeley bd, all special characters have been translated into something unreadable:
"HANGOOK MCDONALD' LTD" is transform into "HANGOOK MCDONALD├óÔé¼ÔäóS CO.,LTD" for example.
I would like to know where can I change the charset of the database?
The code I use in order to insert my document is:
private XmlDocumentConfig docConf = XmlDocumentConfig.DEFAULT.setGenerateName(true);
+public void putDocument(String src) {+
+try {+
XmlUpdateContext uc = mgr.createUpdateContext();
XmlDocument doc = mgr.createDocument();
doc.setContent(src);
db.putDocument(doc, uc, docConf);
uc.delete();
doc.delete();
+} catch (Exception e) {+
log.error(e.getMessage(), e);
+}+
+}+
Best regards,
Pierre-Yves
Edited by: user557912 on 29 août 2008 02:56

Answer 1

Pierre-Yves
This is a bug that has to do with how Java translates a String into a byte[]. It has been fixed in dbxml 2.4, but an easy way to deal with this with older versions of the database is to replace:
doc.setContent(src);with
doc.setContent(src.getBytes("UTF-8"));Similarly, when getting the document content you will want to do
String src = new String(doc.getContent(), "UTF-8");Lauren Foutz