[Htmlparser-user] Parsing ISO-8859-1 --> storing in UTF-8?

[Jan H. <jan...@gm...>]

Hi guys,

I'm trying to parse a website which is encoded in ISO-8859-1. I need to 
store extracted link-texts in UTF-8 format.

My code looks like this:

<code>
Parser myParser = new Parser();
myParser.setURL(url);

// I created a filter named "myLinkFilter" which filters LinkNodes
NodeList myLinkNodeList = myParser.parse(myLinkFilter);

Node myLinkNode = myLinkNodeList.elementAt(0);

LinkTag linkTag = (LinkTag) myLinkNode;

String linkText = linkTag.getLinkText();
</code>

The problem now is, that certain characters (like the lower quotation 
marks: „Quote“) are converted to question marks.

So I tried a coding like this:

<code>

String isoString = linkTag.getLinkText();
String utf8String = null;

try
{
    byte[] stringBytesISO = isoString.getBytes("ISO-8859-1");
    utf8String = new String(stringBytesISO, "UTF-8");
}
catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e)
{
    // do something...
}
</code>

But this still returns question marks in the utf8String.
Any ideas what I need to change?

Thanks and regards
Jan Hempel