Question

I know it must be obvious but can’t find the answer.

What should I do to get the right characteres such as “, ‘, etc…?

This is the method I am using,

public void read(Context context) {

        InputStream inputStream = context.getResources().openRawResource(
                R.raw.puzzles);
        Scanner scanner = new Scanner(inputStream);
        scanner.useDelimiter(PATTERN);
        for (int i = 0; i < 70; i++) {
            ids[i] = scanner.next();
            titles[i] = scanner.next();
            questions[i] = scanner.next();
            answers[i] = scanner.next();
        }

    }

Thanks

Answer 1

After a few days of research I finally found the answer.

First of all I created a BufferedReader from the InputStream for character reading instead of raw byte reading.

Most importantly I instantiated the InputStream with the constructor with the charSetName.

If you go to ‘Save as’ in your NotePad you can choose your Encoding.

Finally I found here the supported encodings.

The default one in NotePad seems to be ANSI, which doesn’t seem to be supported so I changed it and save my .txt file as UTF8.

Here is the code:

public void read(Context context) {

        InputStream inputStream = context.getResources().openRawResource(
                R.raw.puzzles);

        BufferedReader bufferedReader = null;
        try {
            bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                    inputStream, "UTF8"));
        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e1) {
            e1.printStackTrace();
        }

        Puzzle p = null;

        Scanner scanner = new Scanner(bufferedReader);
        scanner.useDelimiter(TOKEN);
        // Skips the first strange char
        scanner.next();
        while (scanner.hasNext()) {

            p = new Puzzle();
            p.setId(scanner.next());
            p.setTitle(scanner.next());
            p.setQuestion(scanner.next());
            p.setAnswer(scanner.next());
            puzzles.add(p);
        }

    }