Question

I have a file in the /res/raw (R.raw.test) folder with the following content:

This is a Tésêt

I want to read it into a string. My current code is:

public static String readRawTextFile(Context ctx, int resId) {
    InputStream inputStream = ctx.getResources().openRawResource(resId);

    InputStreamReader inputreader;
    try {
        inputreader = new InputStreamReader(inputStream, "UTF-8");
    } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e1) {
        e1.printStackTrace();
        return null;
    }
    BufferedReader buffreader = new BufferedReader(inputreader);
    String line;
    StringBuilder text = new StringBuilder();

    try {
        while ((line = buffreader.readLine()) != null) {
            text.append(line);
            text.append('\n');
        }
    } catch (IOException e) {
        return null;
    }
    return text.toString();
}

But the string returned is:

This is a T�s�t

How can I solve this? Thanks

Answer 1

Your code seems OK. String returned is OK also except that you’re trying to view it in viewer not supporting UTF-8. I’ve run your code from groovyConsole which is UNICODE aware and it displays UTF-8 string perfectly.