Swedish chars ��� not working under Solaris

Question

Hi All,
I created the following little code and it is not working under Solaris 7, JDK1.4.1_01. (also tested some other but does not work)
public class HelloSweden
public static void main(String [] args)
String newName="���";
String charsetName = "iso-8859-2";
byte [] s = {(byte)229, (byte)228, (byte)246};
try
newName = new String(s, 0, s.length, charsetName);
catch ( java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException e )
System.err.println(e.getMessage());
e.printStackTrace();
System.out.println("new name is: "+newName);
for(int i=0; i<newName.getBytes().length; i++)
System.out.println(i+"."+":"+newName.getBytes());
The problem is that on Solaris 7 the output is:
new name is: ???
0.:63
1.:63
2.:63
Whereas on Linux it works fine:
new name is: ���
0.:-27
1.:-28
2.:-10
I also tried the "javac -encoding iso8859-1" option but no use.
Could anybody help?
Thnx,
GF

Answer 1

I also tried the "javac -encoding iso8859-1" option
but no use.
Was the output exactly the same or were the numbers correct, at least?
You may need to compile with:
javac -encoding ISO-8859-1 ClassName.java
and then run with:
java -Dfile.encoding=ISO-8859-1 ClassName
You can set the character encoding explicitely like that. The character encoding depends on locale settings; if you set LC_ALL to a Swedish locale ("sv_SE"?) javac and java should start using the correct encodings automatically.