Converting from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8

[V Chauhan]

Hi Ranchers,

How do I convert a String from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 encoding?

I tried using the CharsetDecoder and CharsetEncoder classes but some special characters like bullets etc are not getting converted properly.

Here is what I have been trying. I hope it makes sense.

 
 
byte[] bytedata = resultset.getBytes("COLUMN_NAME") ; // Comes in ISO form, as the character set in the DB is set to ISO
 
Charset iso = Charset.forName("ISO-8859-1");
CharsetDecoder isodecoder = iso.newDecoder();
ByteBuffer bbuf = ByteBuffer.wrap(bytedata);
CharBuffer cbuf = isodecoder.decode(bbuf);  // Decode from ISO to UTF-16
 

Charset utf8 = Charset.forName("UTF-8");
CharsetEncoder utf8encoder = utf8.newEncoder();
ByteBuffer outbuffer = utf8encoder.encode(cbuf);  // Encode from UTF-16 to UTF-8
str1 = new String(outbuffer.array(), "UTF-8");    // Resultant String
 

Will appreciate any thoughts/suggestions on this.

Thanks in advance,
Basu.

[Norm Radder]

Could you post some code with sample data that shows the problem?
Ie create a string with the problem characters using \uxxxx and then run it thru your code to demonstrate the problem. Print the results and post it.