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John and Joi!

You guys were right!!  Moving to DataInputStream worked like a charm!!
Don't know why it took two days of beating my head on the wall, however <g>.

Thanks SO much!!!!!

Harry

"John McGrath [TeamB]" <ng-b@JPMcGrath.net> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 13 Apr 2001 12:23:34 -0700, Harry Whitehouse wrote:
>
> > InputStreamReader MyInputStream
> >    = new InputStreamReader(uc.getInputStream());
>
> I think this is where your problem lies.
>
> An InputStream handles a sequence of bytes, whereas a Reader handles
> a sequence of Unicode characters.  When you use an InputStreamReader,
> it takes the bytes from the InputStream and converts them to Unicode
> characters based on the encoding set for the InputStream.  This can
> be set in the second argument to the InputStreamReader constructor,
> and if you do not specify this, it uses the default encoding for the
> platform you are running on, which is probably UTF-8.
>
> If the encoding if the stream is one of the standard encodings known
> to your JVM, you could just specify the appropriate encoding to the
> InputStreamReader constructor, and it will handle the conversion for
> you.  If not, you could either read the bytes from the InputStream,
> or you could try defining your own converter class.  But I am not
> sure exactly what is involved in installing your own converter.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> John McGrath [TeamB]
>
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