nio and default charset

[Stefano]

Hi,

there is a way to specify the default nio charset use by jvm? On my
linux, jdk1.4.2, jvm start up with utf-8, i need it to start with
iso-8859-1. I cannot simply open stream specifying different charset.

Thank you, Dolce.

 

[Gordon Beaton]

there is a way to specify the default nio charset use by jvm? On my
linux, jdk1.4.2, jvm start up with utf-8, i need it to start with
iso-8859-1. I cannot simply open stream specifying different
charset.

NIO channels, like streams, are used for reading bytes not characters,
and as such don't use charsets at all (default or otherwise).

If you need to convert a byte[] to a String using a specific encoding,
use the appropriate String constructor with the received byte data.

Note that you can get a Reader from your channel that converts to
characters according to a particular encoding, but then you don't use
NIO for reading anymore.

/gordon