[SOLVED] Codepage conversion

[flywheel]

Hello

I'm working on this little program that retrieves a html-page using the URL and BufferedReader.
But I'm having some problems with special characters like 'ê' with some pages.
My own guess is that the reason is that it is a ISO-8859-1 page loaded into a UTF-8 stream. But is it possible to perform a conversion of the retrieved string ?

Live long and prosper...

[Steve11235]

Look at CharsetDecoder and ByteBuffer. The Java network I/O classes make use of these to handle conversions from code page data to Unicode. Of course, you are expected to know in which code page the bytes are encoded. They also offer replacement options for unknown characters.

This means you will have to read the data at the byte level, not as characters. ByteBuffer is a thin wrapper class, so once you have the bytes in an array, creating a ByteBuffer around the array is simple and low overhead.

This is obviously a different approach. I hope this helps...

[flywheel]

It sure does Steve11235 - many thanks, I'll go and do some experimenting :D