Re: Writing Unicode-16 to a text file

From: Konrad Den Ende (chamsterkonrad_at_bigfoot.com)
Date: 01/24/04 

Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 01:04:06 +0100

> When you wrote the characters to a file (what method did you use?) they
> probably underwent a 16-bit to 8-bit conversion

try {
   BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter (new FileWriter
("nihongo.txt"));
   writer.write (cc); // cc is a char[] that stores the characters
   writer.close ();
}
catch (Exception e) {System.out.println (e.getMessage ());}

> using some encoding (what encoding did you specify? or what is your Java
> installation using as its default encoding?).

I didn't specify any encoding so i guess it's english. BUT i figured that
since
char is not more than a number then my char[] variable is just an array of
some
kind of integers (2-byte, i guess, so it will contain all the 65k
characters).

> When you looked at the file afterwards, the software you used to do that
> (what did you use?) probably wasn't set up to grok that encoding.

I used MS Word and a text reader with enabled japanese. Just to be sure i
checked a file that i can read japanese text from using my usual software,
and read from it using notepad. I didn's see japanese (oh, what a surprise)
but i could see a number of strange characters.
Yet, the file that my application creates, contains only "?"'s.

> What happens when you read the file back into Java?

"?"'s only.

Any hint? 

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Konrad
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