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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to make a £ symbol printed from a file? Post 302347763 by bhaskar_m on Wednesday 26th of August 2009 10:50:51 AM
Old 08-26-2009
How to make a £ symbol printed from a file?
Hi,

I am working on Solaris and facing a problem. I have a .DAT file which simply contains some data in particular format which includes £ symbol. The fomat looks like

Code:
001|£30VB | | |T+T250|£30 Value Bundle |1|1|1 |0 |0|0 | |0|1010906 |93731 |TREVORJ |CRBCE1P |1090713 |134739 |JAMESMAT |CRBCE1P |9 |1|PRE-REPORT | | |

The requirement is a java program will be reading the file and printing the same file as it is. But when my program is reading the file and printing everthing is perfectly printed except "£" symbol (read as pound). It is printing "?" instead.

Observations :
1. When I am doing "cat Myfile.DAT" every thing getting displayed perfectly including £ symbol.
2. When I am opening the same file in vi editor it is displaying ASCII value for £ symbol. (/243).
3. I tried to change the encoding from java level by setting the property (in the program Myprog.java) like this

Code:
javac Myfile.java
    java -Dfile.encoding="ISO-8859-1" Myfile

It is reading the .DAT file properly and printing properly. But the bottleneck is , we can not execute the java program from command line as a matter of fact, I tried to set the property(file.encoding) in code level by writing this:
Code:
System.getproperty("file.encoding" , "ISO-8859-1");

but this does not work. From java level I am checking, it is showing that property has been set but actually the program is not working if I do it from code level.

How to proceed? Any ideas? Hopefully this has to be handled in java level not in Unix level (not sure).
Just to read a dat file and print the file output using java.
Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Bhaskar
Last edited by vgersh99; 08-26-2009 at 12:37 PM.. Reason: added code tags
 

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MALSYM(1)						      Malaga quick reference							 MALSYM(1)

NAME

       malsym - compile a Malaga symbol file

SYNOPSIS

       malsym symbol-file

       malsym extended-symbol-file -use symbol-file

DESCRIPTION

       Malaga  is a development environment for natural-language grammars based on the Left-Associative Grammar formalism.  Malaga grammars can be
       used for automatic morphological and/or syntactic analysis.

       The program malsym compiles a Malaga symbol file. Give it the symbol file (suffix .sym or .esym) that is to be translated as  argument.	If
       an extended-symbol-file (suffix .esym) is to be compiled, you must add the option -use.

       See info Malaga for details.

OPTIONS

       -h[elp]
	      Print a help text about malsym's command line arguments and exit.

       -u[se] symbol-file
	      Use the already compiled symbol-file as the base symbol file when compiling an extended symbol file.

       -v[ersion]
	      Print malsym's version number and exit.

AUTHORS

       Malaga  has  been developed by Bjoern Beutel.  Numerous other people distributed to it.	This manpage was originally written for the Debian
       distribution by Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho.

SEE ALSO

       malaga(1), mallex(1), malmake(1), malrul(1), malshow(1)

       ``Malaga 7, User's and Programmer's Manual''.  Available in Debian systems via info Malaga, and, if the malaga-doc package is installed, in
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