I am trying to read file using Java and the file also containing special characters also. I am trying to write the contents of file into another file.
What is the solution to read special character files?
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2what do you mean with special character? – Festus Tamakloe Dec 14 '12 at 09:23
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what's the encoding of the file? – jlordo Dec 14 '12 at 09:24
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special characters like ― and “ and file is using UTF8 encoding style – Adesh singh Dec 14 '12 at 10:11
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Encode file in UTF-8 and use java encoding aware streams operators:
new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(file), "UTF-8")
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An other "frequent" encoding would be Windows Latin-1, "Windows-1252" – Joop Eggen Dec 14 '12 at 09:28
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1@Joop Eggen then follow this tread http://stackoverflow.com/questions/499010/java-how-to-determine-the-correct-charset-encoding-of-a-stream – Aleksander Gralak Dec 14 '12 at 09:30
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i am using the code FileReader fr= new FileReader(new File("path of the file")); BufferedReader br= new BufferedReader(fr); then where to pass the encoding standard. – Adesh singh Dec 14 '12 at 09:35
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@user1868052 read javadoc http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/io/FileReader.html use InputStreamReader instead of FileReader – Aleksander Gralak Dec 14 '12 at 09:40