Re: need help withXMLHTTPreq and parsing response

"Christian Biesinger" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> jason pollard wrote:
> > I just was looking for some rhyme or reason how
> > it's being converted, or why some bytes are converted to unicode, so
that I
> > can convert back to bytes (acutally ints < 255).
>
> Ah. Well, I mentioned that the data is apparently interpreted as
> windows-1252, did I not? Just translate it back.
>
> See, for example, the table at
> http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/sbcs/1252.mspx
>
Oooooh (smacks forehead)......I was taking another look at this table.  I
thought it'd be useless because it doesn't even go above 255, but upon
looking at the x80 and x90 rows for one of my values, I noticed the win-1252
code to be in the x2000's, and indeed these values map to the correct int
values I get using java's InputStream.read().  So all I have to do is build
a table to translate the characters in question, and I'm good to go.  A
little more work than I wanted, but isn't it always?  So my problem is
solved, I believe.  Thanks for the help everybody.

BTW, the overrideMimeType function is clearly ignored in this case, as we've
determined that the chars coming in are windows-1252.  Why that is, I'm not
sure, but one thing I noticed, is that the other Western (ISO-8859-1 & 15 at
least) codepages don't have any characters defined for the x80s and 90s.
Why it doesn't just use UTF-8 I have no idea.

--Jason