forcing the use of a character set

[fl0ra]

I'm trying to force my program to run using a different character set, will this works (I wanna use ISO-8859-1 instead of the UTF-8 by default) :
javaw -Dclient.encoding.override=ISO-8859-1

Thank you guys

 

[timw]

In the jdk1.4 API for the java.nio.Charset class ...

Every instance of the Java virtual machine has a default charset, which may or may not be one of the standard charsets. The default charset is determined during virtual-machine startup and typically depends upon the locale and charset being used by the underlying operating system.

It doesn't say if this can be forcefully changed, though.

Tim
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[fl0ra]

Yeah I know, the solution might be to change the OS charset then run the application then switch the charset back...
But I do not know how to change the charset of the OS (Linux) within the shell...
Anyone?

 

[timw]

sedj? You're our resident linux dude.

Tim
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[sedj]

Hmmm ... beyond me this one.
There is some interesting stuff here :

http://gentoo-wiki.com/index.php?title=HOWTO_Create_an_UTF-8_enabled_system&printable=yes

You might also want to check out the "locale" programme - this dumps all current locale information - not sure how you change it though !

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[fl0ra]

ok cheers...
I guess I'm gonna have to go on the linux forum and ask

 

[stefanwagner]

export LC_ALL=de_DE.ISO-8859-1

i.e. for german locales.

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