read xml in UTF-8 in scala

Question

I am trying to read a file to xml with the following code:

import scala.xml._

object HebrewToEnglishCityTranslator {

  val data = XML.loadFile("cities_hebrew_utf.xml");

  for(val entry <- data \\ "city") {
    val hebrewName = (entry \\ "hebrew_name").text
    val englishName = (entry \\ "english_name").text
    println(hebrewName + "=" + englishName)   }

However, my file is encoded in UTF-8 (hebrew chars) and XML encoding is val encoding = "ISO-8859-1"

what should I do?

That `val encoding` is only used for saving, not for loading. — Daniel C. Sobral, Sep 25 '11 at 17:26

score 13 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 25 '11 at 13:46

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You should use XML.load(reader: java.io.Reader), which allows you to specify the file encoding:


XML.load(new java.io.InputStreamReader(new java.io.FileInputStream("cities_hebrew_utf.xml"), "UTF-8"))

answered Sep 25 '11 at 13:46

Arjan Blokzijl

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score 3 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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Use the InputStream constructor instead of the String constructor. Good explanation of Stream vs. Reader xml reading here: Producing valid XML with Java and UTF-8 encoding

edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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answered Sep 25 '11 at 13:51

Adam Rabung

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read xml in UTF-8 in scala

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