Re: [Java-gnome-developer] java encoding problems

[Andrew C. <an...@op...>]

On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 17:51 +0200, pancake wrote:
> System.out.println(line); // will show strange chars on iso8859 terminals
> new Label(line); // will be ok for iso8859 X or utf8 ones
> 

> So, I don't need special chars for the console ATM.

Perhaps a bit off topic, but a few weeks ago we were having a shindig on
#gnome-hackers about how to use the [a] Compose key to express unusual
characters like », ° and €.

Along the way I mused that it would be so cool if such things worked in
my terminals and davyd  asked what my LANG setting was.

        export LANG="en_CA"

I responded, and his immediate comeback was "switch to

        export LANG="en_CA.UTF-8"

in your .bashrc, logout, login again, and rock on"

Works like a charm - my gnome-terminals are all beautifully displaying
the unicode characters \u00bb, \u2026 etc and I just use
System.out.println() - no mucking around with encodings and extra stream
wrappers.

One observation - Jikes gets messed up if you put something like "blah
blah » blah blah" in a hardcoded String - the result is like "blah blah
Å» blah blah". Eclipse doesn't have any problem, but I do put in "blah
blah \u00bb blah blah" in Strings just to be safe as we tend to use
Jikes when building from make.

AfC
Sydney