Question

So I’m trying to make my program output a text file with a list of names. Some of the names have weird characters, such as Åström.

I have grabbed these list of names from a webpage that is encoded in “UTF-8”, or at least I’m pretty sure it does because the page source says

” meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=UTF-8″ / “

This is what I’ve tried so far:

public static void write(List<String> list) throws IOException  {
        Writer out = new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream("test.txt"), "UTF-8");
        try {
            for (int i=0;i<list.size();i++) {
                try {
                    byte[] utf8Bytes = list.get(i).getBytes("UTF-8");
                    out.write(new String(utf8Bytes, "UTF-8"));
                } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }

                out.write(System.getProperty("line.separator"));

            }
        }
        finally {
        out.close();
        }
    }

and I’m a little confused as to why it’s not working. The output I get is “Ã…ström”, which is very weird.

Can someone please point me in the right direction? Thanks!

And on another unrelated note, is there an easier way to write a new line to a text file besides the clunky

out.write(System.getProperty(“line.separator”));

that I have? I saw that online somewhere and it works, but I was just wondering if there was a cleaner way.

Answer 1

Set your Eclipse > Preferences > General > Workspace > Text file encoding to UTF-8.