character encoding problem

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bj - 15 Jun 2007 00:31 GMT

hi

i've got the following problem :
i'am getting some string with polish characters as some artifacts how
can i change these letters back to normal polish letters??
i've tried something like that

new String(b.getDescription().getBytes("UTF-8"),"ISO-8859-1")

but it didn't work, i've got still some dirty characters in string

please help

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Roedy Green - 15 Jun 2007 10:33 GMT

On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:31:51 +0200, bj
<dinamo@poczta.WYTNIJ_TOonet.pl> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :

>i've got the following problem :
>i'am getting some string with polish characters as some artifacts how
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>
>but it didn't work, i've got still some dirty characters in string

You have to be careful with terms. A string is 16-bit characters. You
probably have some bytes, some sort of 8-bit encoding.

In any case, my essay on encoding should tell you more than you wanted
to know about translating back and forth.

http://mindprod.com/jgloss/encoding.html
--
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
The Java Glossary
http://mindprod.com

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Thomas Fritsch - 15 Jun 2007 10:58 GMT

> i've got the following problem :
> i'am getting some string with polish characters as some artifacts how
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>
> but it didn't work, i've got still some dirty characters in string

Are you really sure, that you want ISO-8859-1 ?
I doubt it, because ISO-8859-1 cannot represent some polish characters:
for example '\u0104' (A with cedilla below), '\u0141' (L with slash across).
Polish text is often encoded in ISO-8859-2, but not in ISO-8859-1.

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