Blackberry 1251 encoding

Question

Is there a way to convert a byte array to string with the windows-1251 encoding in Blackberry? i tried

str = new String(mybyteArr, "Windows-1251");

or

str = new String(mybyteArr, "Cp1251");

but I get UnsupportedEncodingException.

I am using Blackberry JRE 5.0.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 25 '11 at 11:22

This is not supported right out of the box in the BB API.

BlackBerry supports the following character encodings:

"ISO-8859-1"
"UTF-8"
"UTF-16BE"
"US-ASCII"

However if you have an array of bytes and you know this is a string encoded in cp1251, then you may manually create a String from it using smth like this:

StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
char c;
for (int i = 0; i < mybyteArr.length; i++) {
    c = getUnicodeCharForCP1251(mybyteArr[i]);
    sb.append(c);
}

private char getUnicodeCharForCP1251(byte b) {
    // return a matching unicode char for the argument
    // using the table from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1251
}

Blackberry 1251 encoding

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