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Re: how do you block the GUI repaints?

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On Wednesday, May 23, 2018 at 12:47:17 PM UTC-4, Daniele Futtorovic wrote:
> You'll have to know beforehand what encoding your text file is in. There
> is, to my knowledge, no general-purpose, reliable way of determining the
> encoding of an arbitrary file (including whether it's text or not).
> 
> Elsethreads, you talk about "JTextArea's character encoding". JTextArea
> does not have a character encoding. Once a String is in the Java
> runtime, it's a String, period. No character encoding. Character
> encoding has to happen at the boundary of the Java runtime, so to speak,
> when you are reading external data in (in this case, your file).
> 
> I would suggest using java.nio.charset.CharsetDecoder-s in combination
> with the java.nio.channels.FileChannel instance you can obtain from the
> RandomAccessFile instance (because both work with
> java.nio.ByteBuffer-s). If you're unfamiliar with character
> (en|de)coding or Java NIO buffers, I would strongly suggest you look up
> a tutorial on those.
> 
> -- 
> DF.

Yes, I am or was confused.  I'm thinking a String is just a collection of characters which are just collections of bytes, and once the String is created it should hold anything a byte array can hold and the control needs to know how to display it.  Apparently it's the font that needs to know how to display it.  So, I don't know how Notepad++ comes up with their codes to show what non-displayable characters look like, but if the Font has a method to say the character can't be displayed I'll just go with displaying a placeholder, most likely a dot (".") and show the value of the position in hex.  I have code here somewhere to convert bytes to hex.

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  Re: how do you block the GUI repaints? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2018-05-22 14:43 -0400
    Re: how do you block the GUI repaints? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-05-22 13:20 -0700
      Re: how do you block the GUI repaints? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte.net> - 2018-05-22 22:47 +0200
        Re: how do you block the GUI repaints? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-05-22 13:58 -0700
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            Re: how do you block the GUI repaints? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-05-23 05:54 -0700
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                Re: how do you block the GUI repaints? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-05-23 07:26 -0700
                Re: how do you block the GUI repaints? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte.net> - 2018-05-23 16:30 +0200
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