Question

Is it possible to read a text file in Android and convert its content to UTF-8, so all the usual special characters are shown correctly? I am especially talking about some European characters, like Æ, Ø, Å, Ö, and Ä.

Thanks a lot.

Solution:
I eventually used a mix of evilone’s suggestion and some code that replaces the wrong characters with the correct ones. Not perfect, but it works.

Answer 1

Very robust example:

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);

EDIT:

How to auto-detect a file’s encoding