Chinese and Japanese characters

[Former Member]

Hi,

I am having problems reading in and sending out chinese and japanese characters in a FILE---> FILE scenario. Is it true that an UTF-8 encoding can support this or do I need to use UTF-16?? Also does the input file read format should be changed to binary instead of TEXT??

Any help is appreciated!!!

-Teresa

[agasthuri_doss]

Hi,

With UTF-16 is possible,

This will help you

http://unicode.org/unicode/faq/utf_bom.html#3

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/xerces-j-users/200306.mbox/%3C8F7E4BBE4270D511BE550002A5751...

Regards

Agasthuri Doss

[Former Member]

Hi Teresa

<i>>>Is it true that an UTF-8 encoding can support this</i>

Yes it is true UTF-8 is capable of doing this.

For this see this

http://www.geocities.com/dtmcbride/tech/charsets/chinese.html

>><i>Also does the input file read format should be changed to binary instead of TEXT</i>

It shd be text when u want to specify a encoding.

Hope it helps.

Regards

Arpit Seth

[Former Member]

So does this mean UTF-8 (Being single byte) can handle multi-byte complex chinese and japanese data?? I thought when we had multibyte characters, UTF-16 would be a better option...Please correct me if I am wrong...

-Teresa

[former_member252857]

Hello Teresa,

UTF-8 and UTF-16 both are multi-byte encoding.

so they can use Japanese character.

Saito