2008/8/11 Colin Paul Adams <colin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>>>> "Raja" == Sathasivam, Elayaraja <elayaraja.sathasivam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
writes:
>
>    Raja> My ascii file output shows as b'  Is it right ?
>
> No. That is not an ASCII character.


That's an a with circumflex, which usually indicates you've parsed a
multi-byte UTF-8 character using a single byte encoding.

For a good explanation read this: http://www1.tip.nl/~t876506/utf8tbl.html

Just make sure that whenever you go from characters to bytes and vice
versa that you always use the same encoding - in Java it's simplest
just to set the platform default encoding to UTF-8 eg:

-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8

If you displaying the result in a browser, make sure the appropriate
meta is set.

If you are just viewing the result in some text editor (say eclipse's
output pane) make sure that's also set to use UTF-8

Fun isn't it?

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