From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-08-12T18:21:13+09:00
Subject: Re: java strings read and write

Karsten Meier wrote:
> Robert Klemme wrote:
>
>>
>> Can't you just use BufferedReader?  That's present since JDK 1.1 so I
>> assume it will be available on your phone.
>> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/io/BufferedReader.html
>
> No, it is not part of the CLDC/MIDP specification, used in the
> majority of all phones available today. The IO capabilities are quite
> low.

Ah, ok.  Didn't know that.

>> As long as you stick with ASCII chars it's quite easy.  If you want
>> to write UTF8 or something it starts getting complicated.
> I want to do this, because of german umlauts, and I also like to
> include newlines in my strings, so currently I decode them, but the
> decoding make it slower again.

In that case ISO-8859-something should be sufficient IMHO.  Newlines can
be used with ASCII all right.

Kind regards

    robert