#87 Encoding error in org.sbml.jsbml.xml.stax.SBMLWriter

[Christian Thöns]

The method "writeSBMLToString(SBMLDocument, String, String)" does not do the encoding right, when the standard charset on the computer is not UTF-8 (e.g. on Windows).

return stream.toString();

should be replaced by

return stream.toString("UTF-8");

[Christian Thöns]

Example:

SBMLDocument doc = new SBMLDocument(3, 1);
Model model = doc.createModel("test_model");
History hist = model.getHistory();
Creator creator = new Creator("C°", "C°", "C°", "My@EMail.com");
hist.addCreator(creator);

// Wrong
System.out.println(new SBMLWriter().writeSBMLToString(doc, null, null));

System.out.println();

// Right
ByteArrayOutputStream stream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
new SBMLWriter().write(doc, stream, null, null);
System.out.println(stream.toString("UTF-8"));

[Nicolas Rodriguez]

Thanks, I will have a look and do some testings on the read and write methods when the default encoding is not UTF-8.

[Nicolas Rodriguez]

This was fixed some time ago, thanks for the report.