java code to convert a file from UTF-8 to ISO8859-1
carlito
iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO-8859-1 -o output.csv input.csv
Thanks a lot for your help.
Andrew Thompson
> Any java code out there to do a similar job as the one iconv does ?
Use an InputStreamReader/Writer with an
appropriate Charset.
> Thanks a lot for your help.
No worries.
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Mark Space
The Java String class will do this.
String s = new String( bytes, "UTF-8" );
where "bytes" is a byte[] of the raw UTF-8 codepoints. Convert the
variable s to ISO-8859 with
byte[] winCode = s.getBytes( "ISO-8859-1" );
"winCode" now contains Latin1 codepoints. You may have to check those
exact charset names, I didn't compile those lines.
<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html>
Andrew's suggestion to use InputStreamReader/OuputStreamWriter seems
good too, if you are dealing with streams.
InputStreamReader in = new InputStreamReader( is, "UTF-8" );
will read a UTF-8 formatted InputStream "is" to Java's own internal
String format. OutputStreamWriter is similar.
Java's *internal* format is always the same. Java doesn't deal with
other codepoints directly, just as arrays of bytes (i.e., arrays of
data). You'll always have to go to Java's internal format first, then
to whichever output you want, asfaik.
Roedy Green
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>Any java code out there to do a similar job as the one iconv does ?
>iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO-8859-1 -o output.csv input.csv
see http://mindprod.com/applet/fileio.html
read the entire file into String then write it out.
If the file is too big, see http://mindprod.com/products1.html#HUNKIO
see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/encoding.html
for background.
You can also do it with the native2ascii utility.
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carlito
implement your ideas right away.
Thanks again.
Khalil FOUNDY
Roedy Green
You can also ask the FileIO Amanuensis to generate you some code to
read/write in any encoding.
see http://mindprod.com/applet/fileio.html
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