[Php-java-bridge-users] Re: php-java bridge - utf8

[Jost B. <jos...@ya...>]

> You will see that instead of special chars like "ąść" there is "?". 
> UTF-8 should work ?

Yes, of course. See attached png.  But note that your OS must support
UTF-8.  For example:
  
bash-2.05b$ echo $LANG
de_DE.UTF-8


> $baseFont = new Java("com.lowagie.text.pdf.BaseFont");
> public static final boolean EMBEDDED = true;

Yes, I see the problem.  The spec says that bean properties are examined
first.  Which means that we have to call the method
BaseFont.isEmbedded(), which will return the protected variable
embedded.  This is a) not what you want and b) does not work because
baseFont is a class, not an instance.

JSR 223 currently has the same problem.


I think it is necessary to check for a real variable first, only if that
fails we should call the property method.  I check this against the
current spec and will decide when I am back from vacation in three
weeks.

BTW: Of course, the new Java(...BaseFont) code above should throw an
exception "class is abstract" instead of silently returning the class
instead of the instance.  This is one of the problems the bridge has
inherited from the original php4 ext/java written by Sam Ruby.  This
will change with the 2.x versions, when we switch to the JSR code.


Jost