Re: character encoding issues

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On 06/05/10 18:32, Sripathi Krishnan wrote:
> Just a correction - GWT uses UTF-8 and not UTF-16. Also, you *can* do
> String.getBytes() and similar hacks to convert from ISO-8859-1 (oracle) to
> UTF-8 -- but in my opinion it is best to store data in UTF-8 in the
> database.

GWT *source code* is UTF-8 (if you know what's good for you!). GWT
*strings* are UTF-16 --- because the Java spec says so. String.charAt()
will return you an unboxed Character, which is a single UTF-16 value.
It's vitally important to note that this is not the same as a Unicode
code point! Some code points get stored as pairs of Characters, so if
you assume your string contains Unicode your app will break on some
strings. You need String.codePointAt() to get a Unicode code point, but
I haven't checked to see whether that's supported on the client.

String.getBytes() is not supported by GWT, and will only work on the
server (where it's running real Java).

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