J2ME reading files in different languages (encodings)

Question

My J2ME application has to read files in different languages (English, French, Arabic).

The files are written with UTF-8 encoding, and I read them with this code:

InputStream is = this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("/res/traduct_"+ lang +".txt");
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
int chars;
while ((chars = is.read()) != -1)
    sb.append((char) chars);
String str = new String(String.valueOf(sb).getBytes("ISO-8859-1"));

This works fine in Netbeans emulator and also in my LG phone, but in other phones (Nokia, Samsung), Arabic and French are not displayed. Only English works in all cases.

Is there something wrong with my code?

Why ISO-8859-1? If that does not match the default encoding that won't work. — Thilo, May 30 '12 at 09:29
I put UTF-8 but French and Arabic didn't work even in the emulator ! — Ahmed Laatabi, May 30 '12 at 09:33

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

This code is working with no problems : Reading text file in J2ME

String content = "";
Reader in = new InputStreamReader(this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("asdf.txt"), THE_ENCODING);
StringBuffer temp = new StringBuffer(1024);
char[] buffer = new char[1024];
int read;
while ((read=in.read(buffer, 0, buffer.len)) != -1) {
  temp.append(buffer, 0, read);
}
content = temp.toString().

Thanks Thilo.

J2ME reading files in different languages (encodings)

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