Can I log in with other user's account?

Question

we are using jsoup - excellent thanks.

We may get HTML files with no http-equiv meta tag and the charset may be other than UTF-8. How is it best to handle this please. We can have a list of encodings and try them but I am not sure how to tell programatically if something is wrong. Would jsoup throw an IOException?

Solution

login does exactly what the name says, it logs a user in and sets up the environment, but the login command is not intended for switching to another user account on the command line. For this you would either use su username to switch to another account, or sudo -u username to run just a single command as another user.

Comments

[user3319710]

Thanks. Reading : joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html has alos helped.

[user3319710]

also helped. Now I undersatnd better charset versus encoding. I have all settings set to UTF-8. I put some Chinese

[user3319710]

sorry for the garble. Googling brings up the suggestion that jsoup does not support Chinese and Japanese character sets. Is that the case please. All else seems to work fine under UTF-8.

[ollo]

I've not tested jsoup with asian character sets, but does it fail too, if you use java's method to handle strings and then parse it with jsoup.