[Exist-open] how to set charactor encoding in storing XML doc by XML-RPC

[Ryuji Hattori<ha...@hi...>]

Hello all.

 I have been studying eXist programming by sample programs. 
Yesterday, I tried to store and retrieve XML Document written 
in Japanese. Storing with the XML-RPC way was succeeded but 
character Illegular conversion on whole Japanese character data 
occured. because in storing XML with the XML-RPC way encoding is 
set to UTF-8, I tried to convert encoding of retrieving String 
data form UTF-8 to default one(on my enviroment Shift_JIS ) by 
following code.

  XMLResource res = (XMLResource)col.getResource(docID);
  String str = new String(((String)res.getContent()).getBytes(),"UTF-8"); 
  
But somehow a little Illegular Strings still rest. Unicode may be 
a complete encoding set for Japanese Character data. there are 
some problems on using XML with Unicode, almost Illegular conversions

I tried to do same things by using Embedded eXist server. all worked
well about character encoding setting and in my hacking result, class 
org.exist.xmldb.LocalCollection does not seems to convert String's 
encoding. so I propose that org.exist.xmldb.CollectionImpl could 
select encoding in storing XML. For instance, in CollectionImpl.java
by changing only one line, line 331,  

from:   bdata = data.getBytes("UTF-8");

to  :   bdata = data.getBytes(encoding);

you can set the encoding by the Collection#setProperty method. 

please comment.

Thanks you.


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