Umlaut in Java SAX Parser

Question

Hello everybody!

I am currently having trouble with German umlaut values in a XML document I received.

It displays / saves the value as a "ü" instead of a "ü".

The XML Encoding is set to UTF-8 which should be capable of displaying umlauts.

Also I couldn't find any option to set a locale on the SAX parser.

Is there any other way I can make the values save correctly?

btw: I am using eclipse as IDE.

All help is very appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

The XML is encoded in UTF-8, but you are decoding it with ISO-8859-1.

Try to use InputStream and other "binary"-oriented APIs for XML. Avoid using a Reader, or trying to convert from byte[] to a String before parsing XML. You are much more likely to mess up the character encoding than the parser is.

Answer 2

Setting XML encoding to UTF-8 in XML declaration is the one thing but another thing is the physical encoding of the XML document i.e., you can have a XML file that says <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> but the file itself might still be ANSI encoded (or whatever).