Name: pa48320 Date: 02/07/2002


CharToByteBig5_HKSCS needs to have mapping from Unicode 2.1 code points to HKSCS for backward compatibility.

http://www.info.gov.hk/digital21/eng/hkscs/download/big5-iso.txt

An example shown as the following diagram.

       ByteToCharBig5_HKSCS CharToByteBig5_HKSCS
0xfa45 --------------------> U+42b5 ---------------------> 0xfa45
                             U+e005 --(this is missing)--> 0xfa45

The following test case returns "fa,45" in JDK 1.3.1 and "37" (a question mark) in JDK 1.4.0-rc.

########## code ##########
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.lang.*;

class chatToByte {
  public static void main(String args[]) throws UnsupportedEncodingException
  {
    try
    {
      String str = "\ue005";
      String enc = "Big5_HKSCS";
      byte b[] = str.getBytes(enc);
      for (int i = 0; i < b.length; i++)
      {
        if (i == b.length - 1)
        {
          System.out.print(Integer.toHexString(((int)b[i]) & (0xff)) + "\n");
        } else {
          System.out.print(Integer.toHexString(((int)b[i]) & (0xff)) + ",");
        }
      }
    } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
    }
  }
}
(Review ID: 139342)
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