Question

I have a problem….

I made a java program that does the following:

BufferedReader  input = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("test.csv"));
String line = input.readLine();
int lenghtOfLine=line.length();
char[] lineIndex=new char[lenghtOfLine];
lineIndex=line.toCharArray();

Now i make some checks in a for loop such us if(lineIndex[i]=='|') or 'M' and some other checks
in the same way…

The problem is that allthought the program run correct on windows 7, vista , xp (english and greek)
when i try to run it
on windows vista (German) it seems like the check lineIndex[i]=='|' is always false**
why this happen? The test.csv file is the same.. and i am sure that ‘|’ exists in every line..

Is there a problem with unicode or something??

how can i make this program run in every language

The test.csv file is always the some downloaded from the web

I am sorry for my English.
Thanks in advance..

Answer 1

The API specifies that FileReader will assume that the default character encoding of the machine on which it runs.

If you knew the CSV was UTF-8 encoded you could try:

FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream("test.csv");
InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(fis, "UTF-8"); 
BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(isr);