Character Encoding in TXTRenderer

[Torsten Straube <ts...@picturesafe.de>]

Hi all.

I am using fop-0.20.4 to create PDF and text files from
XML files encoded in ISO-8859-1.
While the PDF files are ok, the text files are always UTF-8 encoded.

By looking at the TXTRenderers sources I found the reason for this
behaviour:
The TXTRenderer uses the TXTStream class to write to an OutputStram
and this TXTStream assumes a UTF-8 encoding:

     public void add(String str) {
         if (!doOutput)
             return;

         try {
             byte buff[] = str.getBytes("UTF-8");
             out.write(buff);
         } catch (IOException e) {
             throw new RuntimeException(e.toString());
         }
     }


I don't want to simply change this to another fixed encoding,
even though I always - at least thats what I know now - will
use this encoding.

My FO files always contain an encoding attribute in the XML declaration
so I thought the ContentHandler might instruct the renderer which encoding
to use but the SAXContentHandler does not get this information.

I would like to fix this, but I am not sure how to do it.
Is there any preferable way to tell the renderer which encoding to use?

thanks
Torsten
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Re: Character Encoding in TXTRenderer

["J.Pietschmann" <j3...@yahoo.de>]

Torsten Straube wrote:
> While the PDF files are ok, the text files are always UTF-8 encoded.
...
> My FO files always contain an encoding attribute in the XML declaration
> so I thought the ContentHandler might instruct the renderer which encoding
> to use but the SAXContentHandler does not get this information.

Information about the encoding of the XML file cannot be passed
through the standard interfaces.

> I would like to fix this, but I am not sure how to do it.
> Is there any preferable way to tell the renderer which encoding to use?

The correct way would be to implement a configuration setting
and/or a command line parameter to set the encoding for the
text renderer output.

J.Pietschmann


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