Question

I cannot read and write extended characters (French accented characters, for example) to a text file using the standard InputStreamReader methods shown in the Android API examples. When I read back the file using:

InputStreamReader tmp = new InputStreamReader(in);
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(tmp);
String str;
while ((str = reader.readLine()) != null) {
...

the string read is truncated at the extended characters instead of at the end-of-line. The second half of the string then comes on the next line. I’m assuming that I need to persist my data as UTF-8 but I cannot find any examples of that, and I’m new to Java.

Can anyone provide me with an example or a link to relevant documentation?

Answer 1

Very simple and straightforward. 🙂

String filePath = "/sdcard/utf8_file.txt";
String UTF8 = "utf8";
int BUFFER_SIZE = 8192;

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(filePath), UTF8),BUFFER_SIZE);
BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(filePath), UTF8),BUFFER_SIZE);