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POUTF-8 character encoding in Java
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    copied!<p>I am having some problems getting some French text to convert to UTF8 so that it can be displayed properly, either in a console, text file or in a GUI element.</p> <p>The original string is</p> <p>HANDICAP╔ES</p> <p>which is supposed to be </p> <p>HANDICAPÉES</p> <p>Here is a code snippet that shows how I am using the <a href="http://jackcess.sourceforge.net/" rel="noreferrer">jackcess</a> Database driver to read in the Acccess MDB file in an Eclipse/Linux environment.</p> <pre><code>Database database = Database.open(new File(filepath)); Table table = database.getTable(tableName, true); Iterator rowIter = table.iterator(); while (rowIter.hasNext()) { Map&lt;String, Object&gt; row = this.rowIter.next(); // convert fields to UTF Map&lt;String, Object&gt; rowUTF = new HashMap&lt;String, Object&gt;(); try { for (String key : row.keySet()) { Object o = row.get(key); if (o != null) { String valueCP850 = o.toString(); // String nameUTF8 = new String(valueCP850.getBytes("CP850"), "UTF8"); // does not work! String valueISO = new String(valueCP850.getBytes("CP850"), "ISO-8859-1"); String valueUTF8 = new String(valueISO.getBytes(), "UTF-8"); // works! rowUTF.put(key, valueUTF8); } } } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) { System.err.println("Encoding exception: " + e); } } </code></pre> <p>In the code you'll see where I want to convert directly to UTF8, which doesn't seem to work, so I have to do a double conversion. Also note that there doesn't seem to be a way to specify the encoding type when using the jackcess driver.</p> <p>Thanks, Cam</p>
 

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