character encoding problem

[bj]

hi

i've got the following problem :
i'am getting some string with polish characters as some artifacts how
can i change these letters back to normal polish letters??
i've tried something like that

new String(b.getDescription().getBytes("UTF-8"),"ISO-8859-1")

but it didn't work, i've got still some dirty characters in string

please help

 

[Roedy Green]

i've got the following problem :
i'am getting some string with polish characters as some artifacts how
can i change these letters back to normal polish letters??
i've tried something like that

new String(b.getDescription().getBytes("UTF-8"),"ISO-8859-1")

but it didn't work, i've got still some dirty characters in string

You have to be careful with terms. A string is 16-bit characters. You
probably have some bytes, some sort of 8-bit encoding.

In any case, my essay on encoding should tell you more than you wanted
to know about translating back and forth.

http://mindprod.com/jgloss/encoding.html

 

[Thomas Fritsch]

i've got the following problem :
i'am getting some string with polish characters as some artifacts how
can i change these letters back to normal polish letters??
i've tried something like that

new String(b.getDescription().getBytes("UTF-8"),"ISO-8859-1")

but it didn't work, i've got still some dirty characters in string

Are you really sure, that you want ISO-8859-1 ?
I doubt it, because ISO-8859-1 cannot represent some polish characters:
for example '\u0104' (A with cedilla below), '\u0141' (L with slash across).
Polish text is often encoded in ISO-8859-2, but not in ISO-8859-1.