[10:03] <ttx> persia: java team meeting ? I'm late :)
[10:41] <npasque> hi to all
[10:43] <npasque> i need a way to get an unique id of my system...how can i got it?
[12:08] <maxb> npasque: Depends on your definition of "unique"
[13:10] <npasque> maxb: unique based on my system (os + hardware)...finally i opt for MAC Address
[15:23] <Plexus1> hi there
[15:24] <Plexus1> got 2 problems...
[15:24] <Plexus1> one i dunno if its from java or ubuntu... so I hope this chan can help me
[15:24] <Plexus1> im trying to parse so called umlaute (äöü) which are special chars in german from a file
[15:25] <Plexus1> but they are just cut out by my application
[15:25] <Plexus1> the other thing is regarding eclipse...
[15:27] <Plexus1> i debuged the application to see the values of variables but all i got for the values is something like " (id=9)"	
[15:42] <Plexus1> HARLOW?!?!
[15:42] <Plexus1> any1 there?
[15:47] <mhall119|work> Plexus1: the umlaute is probably a unicode issue
[15:48] <mhall119|work> you're trying to read it from a file?
[16:02] <Plexus1> yes...
[16:03] <Plexus1> mhall119|work: strange thing is that in a prior project i had no problems with those umlauten
[16:09] <maxb> Sounds like a plain Java (not Ubuntu specific) character set issue
[16:09] <maxb> When you read from the file, how do you do it?
[16:11] <Plexus1> BufferedReader rohdaten = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(new File(input)));
[16:33] <maxb> Plexus1: java has a concept of a default character encoding. Worst idea ever imo.
[16:33] <maxb> Don't use it. Always specify the character encoding that's actually correct
[16:34] <maxb> Specifically use a differnent FileReader constructor
[16:34] <Plexus1> other way would be to change the textfiles charset
[16:45] <Plexus1> done that now that are not just cut anymore
[16:45] <Plexus1> but an ö gets ö