com.gisgraphy.helper
Class EncodingHelper

java.lang.Object
  com.gisgraphy.helper.EncodingHelper

public class EncodingHelper
extends java.lang.Object

Encoding helper

Author:

David Masclet

Field Summary

protected static org.slf4j.Logger

logger

Constructor Summary

EncodingHelper()

Method Summary

static java.lang.String	removeAccents(java.lang.String input) To replace accented characters in a String by unaccented equivalents.
static void	setJVMEncodingToUTF8() Set the file.encoding and sun.jnu.encoding to UTF-8
static java.lang.String	toUTF8(java.lang.String string) useful for windows only, this method is a workaround for encoding problems on Windows.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

logger

protected static final org.slf4j.Logger logger

Constructor Detail

EncodingHelper

public EncodingHelper()

Method Detail

toUTF8

public static java.lang.String toUTF8(java.lang.String string)

useful for windows only, this method is a workaround for encoding problems on Windows.
any suggestion are welcomed

Returns:

the string in utf-8

setJVMEncodingToUTF8

public static void setJVMEncodingToUTF8()

Set the file.encoding and sun.jnu.encoding to UTF-8

removeAccents

public static final java.lang.String removeAccents(java.lang.String input)

To replace accented characters in a String by unaccented equivalents. source code from lucene ISOLatin1AccentFilter