This section provides a tutorial example on how to view text files with different encodings with Web browser Internet Explorer. The encoded text file should be modified to add proper HTML tags using the sample program EncodingHtml.java.
Now, we have our greeting messages saved in many different encodings. The next
question is how do display them as glyph of the corresponding languages on the screen.
One of the ways I have used in the past is to run a multi-language enabled Web browser
like IE to view the text files. To do this, we have to mark up the text into a html file,
by using a program like this one:
/**
* EncodingHtml.java
* Copyright (c) 2002 by Dr. Herong Yang
*
* This program allows you to mark up a text file into html file.
*/
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
class EncodingHtml {
static HashMap charsetMap = new HashMap();
public static void main(String[] a) {
String inFile = a[0];
String inCharsetName = a[1];
String outFile = inFile + ".html";
try {
InputStreamReader in = new InputStreamReader(
new FileInputStream(inFile), inCharsetName);
OutputStreamWriter out = new OutputStreamWriter(
new FileOutputStream(outFile), inCharsetName);
writeHead(out, inCharsetName);
int c = in.read();
int n = 0;
while (c!=-1) {
out.write(c);
n++;
c = in.read();
}
writeTail(out);
in.close();
out.close();
System.out.println("Number of characters: "+n);
} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println(e.toString());
}
}
public static void writeHead(OutputStreamWriter out, String cs)
throws IOException {
out.write("<html><head>\n");
out.write("<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\""+
" content=\"text/html; charset="+cs+"\">\n");
out.write("</head><body><pre>");
}
public static void writeTail(OutputStreamWriter out)
throws IOException {
out.write("</pre></body></html>\n");
}
}
Now, let's compile this program and run it with hello.utf-8:
If you have installed IE with the Chinese language supports, you should
be able to open the output file, hello.utf-8.html, and enjoy reading the
messages in English, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.
