Java system prop question.

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pinto - 28 Aug 2006 12:14 GMT

Guys,
What do you mean by this line in a java startup script: What will be
the result of using this line:
sun.io.unicode.encoding=UnicodeLittle

Regards,
Pinto

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Gordon Beaton - 28 Aug 2006 12:31 GMT

> What do you mean by this line in a java startup script: What will be
> the result of using this line: sun.io.unicode.encoding=UnicodeLittle

It's a system property that determines the correct platform dependent
byte ordering to use when converting between byte[] and unicode
characters.

Since it belongs to the "sun" package, it's not part of any public
interface, and consequently nothing you really need to care about.

/gordon

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Arne Vajhøj - 28 Aug 2006 12:35 GMT

> What do you mean by this line in a java startup script: What will be
> the result of using this line:
> sun.io.unicode.encoding=UnicodeLittle

Looks as an undocumented feature to get SUN Java to read/write UTF-16 as
little endian.

Should be easy to check.

Arne

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