Character encoding problem

[Dominic Steng�rd]

Hey JavaGurus!

What I need is a converter between Unicode characters and Big5 characters. Big5 is a stand-alone character set encoding; used in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Input should be a Unicode character (0x4e00) and output should be the equivalent character but encoded in Big5 (0xA440).

I thought this code would do this is:

   
char[] chArr = {0x4e00}; // One Chinese character hexencoded in Unicode
String userdata = new String(chArr);
System.out.println(new String(userdata.getBytes("Big5")));

But the output is still in Unicode ... not Big5?
Need your help. :-)
Thanks!

[Paul Sturrock]

All Strings in Java are Unicode, there is nothing you can do to change that. However, when you output the String you can will use a character set other than Unicode if for example the file uses big5 encoding. Have a look at the contructors of jav.io.OutputStreamWriter.