How to encode a fileHandler to output french characters ?

[l.najm@acteos.com]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to encode a fileHandler to create a file that contains french special characters (è, é, . . . .).

I tried the following code:
fileHandler.setEncoding("ISO-8859-1");

and the following
fileHandler.setEncoding("UTF-8");

But still the output returns a question mark instead of the é and a square instead of the é respectively.

Can anyone advice how to encode the fileHandler to have french characters in the output file ?

Thanks

[JosAH]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to encode a fileHandler to create a file that contains french special characters (è, é, . . . .).

I tried the following code:
fileHandler.setEncoding("ISO-8859-1");

and the following
fileHandler.setEncoding("UTF-8");

But still the output returns a question mark instead of the é and a square instead of the é respectively.

Can anyone advice how to encode the fileHandler to have french characters in the output file ?

Thanks

Are you sure it's not a font problem? There can be a couple of problems:

1) en- and decoding the bytes
2) displaying the resulting characters.

Try to write such a special character as if it were an int (int)chr and see if the Unicode value is correct. If so you have to use another font. If not, you have an en- or decoding problem.

kind regards,

Jos

[toadaly]

Try encoding with UCS-2. UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 are both legacy formats that do not support international character sets.

[Tolls]

Try encoding with UCS-2. UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 are both legacy formats that do not support international character sets.

UTF-8 does. That's the whole point. That's why it uses variable length characters, to fit the Unicode charset in.

UCS-2 is the one that's been superseded...by UTF-16. But UTF-8 is still used, and valid...it isn't legacy by any means.

[l.najm@acteos.com]

Thanks,

It turned out that the characters differed from a tool to another.
the "ISO-8859-1" turned out to output the french characters in most text reader tools.