[HAPI-devel] HAPI encoding

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Hi all,

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I am using the HAPI (0.4.2) classes to transform patients that have been =
exported from SAP, for mass loads (~ 1.000.000 persons), to a standard =
HL7-A08 message.

The problem I have now, is a simple one, but I did not find a solution! =
We have, in our SAP system, sometimes strange characters stored, for =
example a '#' in an address field. Now, to be able to parse the HL7 =
message, generated by HAPI, in our subsystem, I would need to encode the =
message in ISO-8859-1 encoding format (for those special characters). In =
the PipeParser-class, which I use to encode, I found a method =
"encode(Message, String)" which should use a special encoding to =
generate the message. But, unfortunately ISO-8859-1 seems not to be =
supported, as I always get an EncodingNotSupportedError!

So, my question would be, if there is a possibility to encode in =
ISO-8859-1 or maybe there is another method that I did not find yet?!

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Thanks a lot in advance for your help!

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Regards

Bernhard B=F6hm

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