Writing Russian characters to XML file

[Guru Rao]

Hi,

I am trying to write few Russian characters into a XML file using XStream. I am using unicode encoding "UTF8". Most of the Russian characters are getting written correctly, but not all.

Here is the code I am using:-

import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;

import com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream;
import com.thoughtworks.xstream.io.xml.DomDriver;

public class Test {

public static void main(String[] args) {

String str = null;

try {

str = Util.getRussianChar();

XStream xstream = new XStream(new DomDriver());
xstream.alias("test", A.class);

A a = new A();
a.setTest(str);


File file = new File("d:\\Russian1.xml");
BufferedWriter bufferedWriter = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter
(new FileOutputStream(file),"UTF8"));
bufferedWriter.write("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"ISO-8859-1\"?>");
//bufferedWriter.write("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8?>");
bufferedWriter.newLine();
xstream.toXML(a, bufferedWriter);


} catch (Exception e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

}

The value in String "str" is "Сибирь/Дальний восток". Here is my code of A.java :-

public class A {

String test;

/**
* @return the test
*/
public String getTest() {
return test;
}

/**
* @param test the test to set
*/
public void setTest(String test) {
this.test = test;
}

}

And here is the Russian1.xml :-

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<test>
<test>Сибирь/Дальний во�?ток</test>
</test>

As can be seen above in the XML file, few Russian characters are not written correctly into the file.

Any idea what has gone wrong?

Regards,
Guru

[Ulf Dittmer]

If it's UTF-8 you're writing to the file, then you had better specify that as the encoding in the XML file, hadn't you? You're specifying ISO-8859-1 (which does not include any Russian characters, AFAIK). Also note that it's called "UTF-8", not "UTF8".

[Guru Rao]

Yes, I have already tried those options, but the result is same.

[ravi pardeshi]

    	
	<filter>
  	<filter-name>CharacterEncodingFilter</filter-name>
 	<filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter</filter-class>
	<init-param>
 		<param-name>encoding</param-name>
 		<param-value>UTF-8</param-value>
 	</init-param>
 	<init-param>
 		<param-name>forceEncoding</param-name>
 		<param-value>true</param-value>
 	</init-param>
  </filter>
  <filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>CharacterEncodingFilter</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
  </filter-mapping>
		

add this one in your web.xml file.

[Rob Spoor]

Thanks for your input, but what makes you think this is about servlets or JSP files?

[ravi pardeshi]

i had this problem for Chinese characters. i solved that one using that filter.

[Rob Spoor]

I'm sure it did, but it won't work with normal Java applications, now will it?

[ravi pardeshi]

ohh sory ...

i forgot that one.

he is doing for standalone application.
no idea about this.

[Guru Rao]

The issue is fixed.
Sorry guys, the problem was not in the program posted by me. The issue was with the Utility which retrieved the Russian characters, that is "str = Util.getRussianChar(); "

Anyways, thanks for all your inputs.

Regards,
Guru

[Rob Spoor]

Don't you just hate it when that happens? You spend so long trying to find out what's wrong in your code, only to find some third party code has a bug...