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Shelley Stone

Posts: 1
Nickname: shelley
Registered: Mar, 2006

ISO-8859-1

Posted: Mar 14, 2006 1:51 PM

I am using Java to test requirements for data within files.
I am using the below code to verify ISO-8859-1 compliance within the files. The code is not really checking for ISO-8859-1 and the IOException e error comes up everytime. The UnsupportedEncodeingException is not even working at all.

What I would like it to do is tell me if there are any characters within the file that DO NOT meet ISO-8859-1. Could someone please help me?

try {
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream
"infilename"), "8859_1"));
String str = in.readLine();
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
System.out.println ("Code is not 8859-1 compliant " + e);
} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println ("Code is not 8859-1 compliant " + e + " !!!The system cannot find NB1!!!");
}
Shelley

John Sjöberg

Posts: 2
Nickname: flaco
Registered: Mar, 2006

Re: ISO-8859-1

Posted: Mar 20, 2006 4:31 PM

UnsupportedEncodingException will only be raised if the encoding you choose isn't supported (i.e. ISO-8859-1).

Furthermore, I do not think that you can say that a text is not ISO-8859-1 compliant. You could probably check to see if there are many "strange" characters read.

Telling the stream that it should decode the data as ISO-8859-1, well then it does, and it will be valid.

An article on the encoding topic: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

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