[hibbert]

hey there,
i've got a tcp connection and i want to display some names or something.
now i've git the problem, that an the place for an ä stands a symbol or something.

i send the data to the BB as an ASCII string, so i have to encrypte this string on BB again, but how?

thanks hibbert

[Dougsg38p]

Looks like a character encoding issue. The BlackBerry uses UTF-8 by default - check and see what kind of encoding is being used on the other end of the socket. Probably 8859 if it is a Windows system.

You'll need to take the byte array and convert to string with the correct encoding, or change the encoding on the other end to UTF-8.

See API docs for String:

public String(byte[] bytes,String enc)

[hibbert]

ok, i have tried this one here:

PHP Code:

 do {
                        ch = (byte)is.read();
                        sb.append((char) ch);
                    } while (is.available() > 0);
                         String myErg = new String(sb.toString().getBytes(),"UTF8");
                            myBuffer += myErg; 


all 'ä', 'ö', 'ü' and 'ß' are displayed as '??'...
i have tried UTF-8, UTF8 and ASCII.

the sender is a windows-service, sending in ASCII...

maybe someone can help me

thanks hibbert

[nanika]

You must set the "source" encoding, which is probably ISO-8859-1...

[hibbert]

hi,
ok, and what if i can't change the source encoding? What should i do then? is there an option which i can change on the BES or on the BB?

thanks hibbert

[nanika]

As a matter of fact, I think your code is wrong before the "new String()" bit : when you "append" the read byte to "sb" (which, I assume, is a string buffer), the wrong conversion has already happened.

What you need to do is read the data in a byte array and convert this byte array to a String.

[hibbert]

Ok, thanks, but that won't work, because of this one here:
i have printed out every char, and look what happens:
i get this string: 613 Z??hler
and here are the char-numbers:
6 --> 54
1 --> 49
3 --> 51
 --> 23
Z --> 90
? --> -61
? --> -92
h --> 104
l --> 108
e --> 101
r --> 114

so the "ä" as got two numbers. so i can convert the inputstream at any position, and it won't work, because the "ä" has got two characters.

so what can i do??

thanks hibbert

[nanika]

Characters on 2 bytes just mean it's an UTF-8 encoding. And imply that you will have to explicitly set the encoding when doing the conversion.

That does not change a thing about what I wrote above: fill a byte array with the text and do the conversion on the whole array. You don't have any other option except decoding the UTF-8 chars yourself.

[hibbert]

hi,
ok, but how do i create a dynamed byte-array? and how do i convert this one to a new string?

thanks again.
hibbert

[simon.hain]

ByteArrayOutputStream