hello
i am now writing a program to BE connected by a bw4.2 application by using socket,it means that my program open the server port,the bw call my socket and send me a message that is XML format,the socket component of bw is configured to use the "utf-16le",my program run on a chinese version windoes2003 server,that use the "iso8859-1" or "gb2312" encoding.the code snippet of my program as following:

ServerSocket server = new ServerSocket(10001);
Socket client = server.accept();
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
client.getInputStream()));
String inputLine = "";

while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
String str=new String(inputLine.getBytes("iso8859-1"),"utf-16");
System.out.println(str);
}



and the bw send following message to my program:


<IncStatus>

<IncidentID>83700</IncidentID>

<TimeStamp>20/05/2004 13:58:34</TimeStamp>

<UserNameID>Bruce</UserNameID><WorkstationID>CLIENT1</WorkstationID>

<StatusID>3</StatusID>

</IncStatus>


but in my program,the the following is printed?

<IncStatus>?

<IncidentID>83700</IncidentID>?

<TimeStamp>20/05/2004 13:58:34</TimeStamp>?

<UserNameID>Bruce</UserNameID><WorkstationID>CLIENT1</WorkstationID>?

<StatusID>3</StatusID>?



as you can see,in the end of each line,ths sign "?" is added,and the tag "</IncStatus>" is missed.

who can help me,how can i deal with the encoding problem?

Hi,
I think you should use an InputStreamReader where you can specify your charset:
InputStreamReader(InputStream in, Charset cs)
InputStreamReader(InputStream in, CharsetDecoder dec)
InputStreamReader(InputStream in, String charsetName)

Best regards, Mircea