Character encoding

[kakoulis]

Hi,
I want to use Greek Font on the Canvas, and I send a String (in Greek) to the setText() method. But I get
an EOFException . Here is the code:

public void setText(String text) {
try {
byte[] gText = text.getBytes();
ByteArrayInputStream bis = new ByteArrayInputStream(gText);
DataInputStream dis = new DataInputStream(bis);
int i = gText.length;
while (i != -1) {
// I get here the EOFException
System.out.println(dis.readUTF());
}
bis.close();
dis.close();
}
catch(EOFException ex) {
db("CIProduct EOFException " + ex.toString());
}
catch(UnsupportedEncodingException ueex) {
db("CIProduct UnsupportedEncodingException " + ueex.toString());
}
catch(IOException ioe) {
db("CIProduct IOException " + ioe.toString());
}
}

How can I use readUTF() to display the Greek fonts on the canvas?
Can anyone help me?

Thanx...

[doctordwarf]

Have you tried just drawString() with our greek texts?
If your String is already in Unicode, then there is no need to convert it somehow. If it is not in Unicode, then conversion should be performed in a different way.

Sorry, if I didn't understand your question

[kakoulis]

Yes, but it dont work's!

[doctordwarf]

What exactly doesn't work?
Do you provide it with Greek Unicode string, but it is printed as some wrong characters?

Are you sure, that your phone itself supports Greek? It might not have Greek font at all.

[kakoulis]

Ok, it works fine when I switch the device language from Greek to English. I thing this is a bug.

[law1603]

Hi everybody,

I have a similar question related to character encoding also.

As I learn from the Nokia device document that all Nokia devices support at least UTF-8, does it mean that all characters, which include English characters & traditional or simple Chinese characters, in such format can be displayed in all Nokia devices properly?

Meanwhile, can such characters in UTF-8 encoding system be displayed properly in the KToolBar, the J2ME development kit from Sun?

Thank you.