GPS programming.

[santa]

Hi . Ive done a program that reads from a GPS device from a serialport. My only problem is that it gives me strange stuff.

The strings i get look like this:
NMEA Sentence [$GPRMC,160718.0�00,A,5746.587�4,N,01150.6604,E,0.3 0�,125.53,050211�,,,A*6C]

where � = a square.

how can i fix this? thanks

[Petr]

I think you need set encoding for input stream.

[santa]

Thank you for your reply . how can i do that? There is no such class ?

[Petr]

How you get this string. Can you show snippet code, which get string?

[santa]

I know its a lot of trash in it ... but Ive edited it soo much trying to get to the problem =P any ideas?

/CODE WAS HERE/

Removed because my teachers will kill me if their "search bot" finds my code online.

[Petr]

You can try follows

String encoding = "UTF-8"; //need encoding
InputStreamReader reader = new InputStreamReader(inStream, encoding);

[JosAH]

The strings i get look like this:
NMEA Sentence [$GPRMC,160718.0�00,A,5746.587�4,N,01150.6604,E,0.3 0�,125.53,050211�,,,A*6C]

where � = a square.

What should that String look like according to that GPS device manual?

kind regards,

Jos

[santa]

I think i fixed it by just removing the unknown signs.. because it added them randomly and without them it seems to be the correct length