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Problems in URLEncoder.java with EBCDIC host





------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2004-06-16 15:58 -------
The problem is the conversion between Java Strings (2 byte Unicode) and Byte
Arrays (1 byte ASCII/UTF-8 or EBCDIC on z/OS). IBM recommends on their web page
(http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/eserver/articles/java_code.html) to
specify the encoding to avoid these problems. For example: byte [] myBytes =
myString.getBytes("8859_1"); 
I am not a Java programmer so I can't change the code.
The other problem could be solved very simple:
        for (char i = 'a'; i <= 'i'; i++) {
            addSafeCharacter(i);
        }
        for (char i = 'j'; i <= 'r'; i++) {
            addSafeCharacter(i);
        }
        for (char i = 's'; i <= 'z'; i++) {
            addSafeCharacter(i);
        }
        for (char i = 'A'; i <= 'I'; i++) {
            addSafeCharacter(i);
        }
        for (char i = 'J'; i <= 'R'; i++) {
            addSafeCharacter(i);
        }
        for (char i = 'S'; i <= 'Z'; i++) {
            addSafeCharacter(i);
        }
        for (char i = '0'; i <= '9'; i++) {
            addSafeCharacter(i);
        }

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