Note that if you're transferring this data between two different machines, it's usually a good idea to specify what encoding is being used, when sending and receiving. E.g.using String's getBytes(String encoding) method. Do not trust the default platform encoding unless you are sure (a) all the machines involved use the same default encoding, and (b) all the characters in your sting are representable using the default encoding. If you only use characters in US-ASCII (Unicode 0-127) there's usually no problem - at least not until you try to print something that uses Microsoft's "smart quotes" (‘foo’ or “bar” ) rather than "straight" quotes ('foo' or "bar"). [ June 01, 2005: Message edited by: Jim Yingst ]
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