[jomanda]

Hi! i have a problem. if i reply the string to the browser without any changes, it does not work. what is that?
BUT, if i do the getBytes() trick, and i store and read it from db, it does display correctly

[ovigo22]

Did you check the encoding of the string you get back from the database?
Also, I thought strings were always UTF-16

[Kopilman]

Unless otherwise specified.

[jomanda]

i think, that db read/write trick helps only as conversion from byte[] to String all my db communication seem to be iso-8859-2, and i see no problems with it

[PaulKolin]

Strings in java memory are always utf-16

[ovigo22]

But if you create one with another encoding from bytes, doesn't it transcode it to UTF-16 in memory?

[Kopilman]

Yes...
But who cares how it's stored?

[ovigo22]

So if you create a string by passing bytes and the appropriate encoding, then do .getBytes() won't that return the UTF-16 bytes?

[Kopilman]

Booleans could be stored as 32-bit values.

[ovigo22]

Or does it return the original?