Question

I have an android app that takes an ISO8859-1 (Latin1) file with data.
Essentially, Portuguese words whose characters I want to convert to the un-accented counterparts.

Yes, I googled a lot for this, and tried the

      Normalizer.normalize(input, Normalizer.Form.NFD);

trick, and yes, I tried also

      String.replaceAll("[áâã]", "a").replaceAll(....)....

but the string remains accented. I also tried messing with the project encodings, but not sure where to change (if this is a solution at all).

Answer 1

Ok, I found the answer. Just added “Latin1” when reading the InputStreamReader (it seems that, despite the config, it was assuming UTF-8 or something else).

So this is how I read the file now:

 br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(Environment.BR_DB), "Latin1"));

I needed to add an UnsupportedEncodingException.

Thanks for the previous answers,

L.