Encoding problem

[Yannis Haralambous]

Hi,

I have the following problem:




    {
      String s = new String(ch, start, length);
       System.out.print(s);
    }

I apply this class to the following minimal document:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<a>dégénéré</a>









thanks in advance!

I wrote a minimal class implementing SAX (I attach it to this message). In this class I do the very simple: public void characters(char[] ch, int start, int length) throws SAXException where the "é" characters are coded in UTF-8 (bytes 0xC3 0xA9). When I compile the class with the latest version of Xerces-J and run it on MacOS X 10.6 I get a very surprising result: the string dégénéré, where the "é" characters are represented by the single byte 0x8E. This was the position of letter "é" in the old (MacOS 9) encoding MacRoman. What I don't understand is (a) why does Xerces change the encoding? (b) why does it chose a completely obsolete Mac encoding? I have tried the same class under Windows XP and when I run it under Eclipse I get correct UTF-8 output, and when I run it a Windows terminal, I get the output in Windows Latin-1 (é is represented by byte 0xE9), which is again a 1-byte encoding. Could you please tell me what to add to my code so that I will always obtain UTF-8, regardless of the platform? (I have used this code a few years ago, and I never had this problem…)

SaxTest.java
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