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Hi,

there is a way to specify the default nio charset use by jvm? On my
linux, jdk1.4.2, jvm start up with utf-8, i need it to start with
iso-8859-1. I cannot simply open stream specifying different charset.

Thank you, Dolce.

On 4 Jun 2004 02:35:31 -0700, Stefano wrote:
> there is a way to specify the default nio charset use by jvm? On my
> linux, jdk1.4.2, jvm start up with utf-8, i need it to start with
> iso-8859-1. I cannot simply open stream specifying different
> charset.

NIO channels, like streams, are used for reading bytes not characters,
and as such don't use charsets at all (default or otherwise).

If you need to convert a byte[] to a String using a specific encoding,
use the appropriate String constructor with the received byte data.

Note that you can get a Reader from your channel that converts to
characters according to a particular encoding, but then you don't use
NIO for reading anymore.

/gordon

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