RE: Running in EBCDIC or ASCII

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[mailto:java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Barbara Morris
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 5:37 PM
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Subject: Re: Running in EBCDIC or ASCII

McKown, John wrote:

All JAVA (JVM) implementations must run UTF-16 internally

to be called JAVA. This is a SUN requirement.

But there are cases where Java has to deal with non-UTF-16 data, for
example when converting between a String and a byte array. The
file.encoding Java property controls how the byte array is
interpreted
by Java.
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Good point! I guess I am confused. I thought the file.encoding was used when the data was read or written to the file. Do you mean that if affects how Java inteprets a the bytes in a byte[] variable? Time for me to hit the books again!

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