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Re: [equinox-dev] Equinox and UTF-8


Well you should not be getting bytes from a String. A String is a set of Characters. Some characters may fit into bytes, but some are wider.

Also, remember that the length of  a String is the number of characters not the number of bytes into which those characters may be encoded.
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From: Holger Mense <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Equinox development mailing list <equinox-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 2008/07/10 02:37 AM
Subject: Re: [equinox-dev] Equinox and UTF-8





Hi,

On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 15:45:03 -0400, Oleg Besedin <obesedin@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> To get more consistent results, use String.getBytes("UTF8"). The
> getBytes() method uses default encoding.

using String.getBytes("UTF-8") does not change the behaviour.

Running the code as a bundle inside Eclipse leads to

=== cut ===
§ length() = 1
§ cast to byte = -89
§ getBytes() = -62 -89
=== cut ===

while starting it as a bundle in a running Equinox framework outside
Eclipse leads to

=== cut ===
+é-º length() = 2
+é-º cast to byte = -62 -89
+é-º getBytes() = -61 -126 -62 -89
=== cut ===


> I've read that Windows has
> different default encodings for GUI and console applications. If that is
> true, it might explain why you see different outputs.

I don't think that this is the reason of the watched behaviour. Executing
the same
code without a running Equinox framework leads to the correct identical
result in- and outside
Eclipse. When running it in an Equinox instance, both results differ. So it
looks for me like an
Equinox issue.

Currently I am migrating a bigger application on top of Equinox. The last
days I was working to get
it to start again outside my development environment. That was the time
where a detected the watched
behaviour.

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