Pls help....str.getBytes()

[Du...@za.didata.com]

With reference to the following, does anyone know whether one must replace
every reference to str.getBytes(), or r there some selected ones we can do
only?

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-dev&m=99587281428987&w=2


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Re: Pls help....str.getBytes()

[ewitness - Ben Fowler <bf...@ewitness.co.uk>]

>With reference to the following, does anyone know whether one must replace
>every reference to str.getBytes(), or r there some selected ones we can do
>only?
>
>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-dev&m=99587281428987&w=2
>
>
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I am really only writing to refer you to the Stupid Disclaimers
page <URL: http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/ >,
as you changed 'are' to 'r' to save two 7-bit bytes!

The short answer is that this is a java problem.

I hope that FOP will not move away from 100% pure java
without very good reason. If adding the requested
encoding is machine/OS specific then should we encapsulate
this issue by deriving from String?

Either way, any change should be fully consistent
with FOPs internationalisation mechansims.

I would guess that the medium length answer is yes,
all of them & you might be better catching the
exception at an appropriate point and reporting it.

If you are not familar with encoding in java, then
you might want to look here
<URL: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javanp2/chapter/ch11.html >, or
<URL: http://users.erols.com/eepeter/chinesecomputing/programming/java.html >
<URL: http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/FAQ.html >
where encoding is mentioned in passing.

Ben.

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