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Special characters replacement

Former Member — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:57:58 GMT

Hi All,

I am facing a problem while replacing special characters in java mapping.

requirement is: we ned to replace the characters as given below:

à a À A

â a Â A

ç c Ç C

é e É E

è e È E

ê e Ê E

ë e Ë E

î i Î I

ï i Ï I

ô o Ô O

ù u Ù U

û u Û U

the problem is, when i execute the java map , it changes the encoding automatically to UTF 8 which convert these characters to some weired combionations for exp:

é is represented as Ã©, in UTF 8

And i had to search for these characters i.e to replace Ê : a= a.replaceAll("ÃŠ","E");

// é,è,ë,ê = Ã©,Ã¨,Ã«,Ãª

// í,ï = Ã,Ã¯

// ó,ô = Ã³,Ã´

// ù,û = Ã¹,Ã»

// Ä = Ã„

// Ö = Ã–

// Ü = Ãœ

// ê = Ãª

is there any simple way i can maintain the ISO encoding in the java map or replace these special characters with normal english characters?

Re: Special characters replacement

Former Member — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 11:04:25 GMT

Check this. It may help

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-46151

Re: Special characters replacement

Former Member — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 11:07:18 GMT

Hi,

You can use the symbolic codes for each character, e.g. à is symbolized by \u00F0. You can find the complete list of unicode symbols for different characters e.g. here:

List of Unicode characters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Some more info on how to replace unicode-based characters with Java code e.g. here:

Replacing Unicode character codes with characters in String in Java - Stack Overflow

Regards,

Greg