Re: XML file and Japanese characters

Hi
I am not worried about how they are displayed,
My requirement is to create a XML file and then call a WebService using this XML file,
Then it is will be the webservice to interpret the data,
So in this case if i change the XML to UTF-16 or ISO 8859-1,
will it work,

A$HI$H


--- On Wed, 7/30/08, Joe Sam Shirah <joe_sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Joe Sam Shirah <joe_sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: XML file and Japanese characters
To: "Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400" <java400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 12:26 PM
Hi Ashish,

If you have enough control over your XML generation,
Thorbjrøn's
suggestion makes sense and should pretty much work
anywhere.

AFAIK, CCSID is a double byte (only) set, so the triple
bytes you see
are, I believe, artifacts of UTF-8 encoding. That occurs
at hex values
above 07FF. So, you could change the encoding to UTF-16.
But that's only
part of the story. Other parts are the encoding you use to
save the file
and the tool you use to read it.

I ran into an issue the other day that gave me fits and
renewed my
appreciation of what Java does for you. It was pretty
simple: a
straightforward HTML error page for Apache that included
French. I got the
famous boxes and question marks, even though I specified
encoding in UTF-8.
The base problem was that Windows WordPad defaulted to
system encoding (1252
I think.) I tried saving as Unicode, but WordPad uses BOM
and the browsers
didn't like it. I could have found a tool that would
save it properly, but
people down the road might not have it, so I owned up to my
red face and
changed the encoding to ISO 8859-1, which worked for the
French characters.
With Java in between, I never would have seen the issue at
all.

So, I believe the moral is: if you're using other
than default encoding
on your box, be sure the tools you use are capable of
saving and reading the
encodings. HTH,



Joe Sam

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ashish Kulkarni"
<kulkarni_ash1312@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <java400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 10:05 AM
Subject: XML file and Japanese characters

Hi
Has any one worked with creating a XML file from

database which has

Japanese database which has 3 byte characters.
The AS400 file is created with CCSID 5026, i need to

get data from this

file and create XML file, which will be send to other

program

Currently the issue is when i create XML file with

UTF-8 these japanese

characters become some thing unreadable
So how do i convert these characters to readable

UTF-8? or do i have to

create XML file with some other encoding.
Any ideas, has anyone worked with project where you

are need to get data

from non English database into a XML file

Ashish



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