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Re: Using encryption with special Unicode characters

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"Mayeul"  wrote in message news:4e5b3747$0$28393$426a74cc@news.free.fr... 

> String.getBytes() and String(byte[]), converting String to byte array 
> and backwise, is the job of a character encoding, which, in Java, are 
> called 'charsets'. If you do not specify which charset you want to use, 
> they will use your default charset, which depends on your environment.
>
> This charset is not guaranteed to support Unicode. In fact, in western 
> environments it is rather likely to be iso-8859-1 or likewise, which 
> does not support Unicode.
>
> Which is why you're better off forcing the use of a Unicode-compliant 
> charset, like utf-8. utf-8 and the utf-16s are guaranteed to be 
> supported by Java, which makes them safe choices.

Thanks Mayeul, I now use UTF-8 and it works perfectly :-)

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Using encryption with special Unicode characters "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2011-08-29 16:11 +1000
  Re: Using encryption with special Unicode characters Mayeul <mayeul.marguet@free.fr> - 2011-08-29 08:56 +0200
    Re: Using encryption with special Unicode characters "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2011-08-29 17:18 +1000
  Re: Using encryption with special Unicode characters Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2011-08-29 00:29 -0700
  Re: Using encryption with special Unicode characters Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-08-29 04:29 -0700

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