Bytes getting misinterpreted..

[Jayant Raj]

Hi,

I have a situation wherin I am firing MQ requests to a backend system to get some data. The data is a string on the backend system 'Credit 1 [1000] '.
The MQ server uses character encoding ISO-8859-1.

However, when this data is read by a Websphere 5 environment, I get 'Credit 1 �1000! ' back.
The same when read by a Websphere 6 environment gives me 'Credit 1 000! '.

How do i resolve this? I have tried setting the 'client.encoding.override' to ISO-8859-1 / UTF-8 in the Websphere server.. But no success!!!

[Paul Clapham]

This isn't a minor difference between ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8; in fact ISO-8859-1 is a subset of UTF-8 in the sense that they both encode characters in the same way if they encode them at all.

The changes to [ and ] suggest to me that there is some kind of EBCDIC-based encoding going on somewhere. Those are basic ASCII characters so the only thing that could change them like that is something completely different from ASCII.

[William Brogden]

when this data is read by a Websphere 5 environment

Read using what code?

Do you have any way to dump the binary values of the characters in the backend system string?

Bill

[Jayant Raj]

Paul & William.. Many thanks for the response.
I have java code deployed in Websphere 5 & 6 servers that fires a MQ message to get the data from the backend. I get a byte[] back & I convert the same to a string & then parse it for information.
Do you reckon it is something to do with the character sets used in the JVM of the servers?
If yes, how do I change the character set used?

Thanks.

[Paul Sturrock]

Sounds like a WebSphere question. I'll move this to the WebSphere forum, you might get more responses there.

[Hanumanth Kanthi]

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'client.encoding.override' to ISO-8859-1 / UTF-8
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After setting the above, it should work... I am surprise.....

Did you restarted the server after making above changes to the JVM? If not, pl. do so and see how that affects...

Cheers,
H. Kanthi