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| RB |
 Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 2:47 pm Post subject: CCSID for Trademark |
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Acolyte
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All,
I have a java program reading a file and writing it to the queue. The program is creating issues whenever the input message has special characters like trademark symbol.
I tried couple of options, but nothing seems to work. I am not sure whether it is the reading file part or the writing to the queue part affecting the byte stream. It looks like the output is always defaulted to UTF-8.
The sample code is as given below.
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reading section-
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FileInputStream instr = new FileInputStream(files[i]);
InputStreamReader instrR = new InputStreamReader(instr,"ISO-8859-1");
if (filelength > 0) {
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
char[] b = new char[BLOCK_SIZE];
int n;
// read a block, if it gets any chars, append them.
while ((n = instrR.read()) > 0) {
//sb.append(b, 0, n);
sb.append((char)n);
}
instrR.close();
writing section
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Hashtable env = new Hashtable();
env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, initialContextFactory);
env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, providerUrl);
env.put("CCSID", new Integer(1208));
jndiContext = new InitialDirContext(env);
// Get a QueueConnectionFactory.
queueConnectionFactory = (QueueConnectionFactory) jndiContext.lookup(qcfName);
// The Queue object from the JNDI namespace.
queue = (Queue) jndiContext.lookup(sendQueueName);
// Create a QueueConnection from the QueueConnectionFactory
queueConnection = queueConnectionFactory.createQueueConnection();
// Start the QueueConnection.
queueConnection.start();
// Create a QueueSession object from the QueueConnection
queueSession = queueConnection.createQueueSession(false, Session.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE);
// Create a QueueSender object for sending messages from the queue session.
queueSender = queueSession.createSender(queue);
// Prepare a message object from the queuesession.we will create a textMessage message object.
message = queueSession.createTextMessage();
// Set the message you want,to the message object.
message.setText(textmsg);
// Now we are ready to send the message.
try {
queueSender.send(message);
System.out.println("The Message has been sent ");
} catch (JMSException je) {
System.err.println("caught " + je);
Exception e = je.getLinkedException();
if (e != null) {
System.err.println("linked exception: " + e);
}
System.out.println("The Message has not been sent ");
return -1;
}
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The above code converts D©COR in the input to D©COR in the output. I would appreciate if anyone can tell what CCSID values I should be use in this pgm.
regards,
rb |
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| fjb_saper |
| Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 3:02 pm Post subject: |
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You can use CCSID 1208 (UTF-8 ).
You need to set the CCSID on the message
Enjoy 
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| Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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Acolyte
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Thanks for the reply.
But I am already using that in the code. I think the reading part is not working correctly. Though I have specified "ISO-8859-1" while reading the file, it is not coming correctly.
When I display the content in between (string buffer sb), I can see the extra bytes.
I am not sure whether this is the correct way or value to be used in the InputStreamReader. Any thoughts?
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RB |
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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So you appear, at least to my very very very very very brief glance, to have created a TextMessage properly.
This has nothing to do with how you are reading the message.
Does the message apear as a TextMessage on the remote side? Or something else?
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| RB |
| Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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Acolyte
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Yes, it is coming as a proper text message with an extra byte (Â). And I can see that the code page is set to 1208 in the MQMD header. Should I be using some other encoding value?? Or is the handling in between (chars to string buffer and back to string) somehow affecting the byte stream??
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| RB |
| Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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| btw, I am running this in Unix, if at all that is going to make any diff!! |
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| fjb_saper |
| Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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| RB wrote: |
Thanks for the reply.
But I am already using that in the code. I think the reading part is not working correctly. Though I have specified "ISO-8859-1" while reading the file, it is not coming correctly.
When I display the content in between (string buffer sb), I can see the extra bytes.
I am not sure whether this is the correct way or value to be used in the InputStreamReader. Any thoughts?
Regards,
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ISO-8859-1 is CCSID 819. I am not sure that this CCSID will support all of your special characters. You're better off keeping it all in CCSID 1208 (UTF-8 ) and setting the CCSID on the message...
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| RB |
| Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks guys for the reply.
I was not setting the CCSID correctly while putting the message. I was adding it as a property to the Hashtable, but that doesn't look like the right way.
Now I am setting it using the set int property on the message as given below.
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| msg.setIntProperty( "JMS_IBM_Character_Set", 819); |
But again, when I am trying with CCSID value as 1208, it is not coming correctly. But with 819 I am able to retain the values correctly.
Thanks,
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| fjb_saper |
| Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 3:31 pm Post subject: |
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| RB wrote: |
Thanks guys for the reply.
I was not setting the CCSID correctly while putting the message. I was adding it as a property to the Hashtable, but that doesn't look like the right way.
Now I am setting it using the set int property on the message as given below.
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| msg.setIntProperty( "JMS_IBM_Character_Set", 819); |
But again, when I am trying with CCSID value as 1208, it is not coming correctly. But with 819 I am able to retain the values correctly.
Thanks,
RB |
This may well be because the text you are populating the message with is CCSID 819 and not UTF-8 ...
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| ling_71_99 |
| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:11 am Post subject: Try to read into byte[] instead of StringBuffer |
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Try to read it into byte[] first, then convert to String the encoding you want as following:
encoding = "Cp437"; // the code page you want
byte[] ebcdic = ....;
String reconsituted = new String( ebcdic, encoding );
Regards,
Michael
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