Internationalization and Java Strings

Hi
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I have been reading up a bit on Internationalization and how the Collation =
API's help out with searching and sorting of Strings etc. But if I had a ne=
ed to store a String to file and this String could have weird characters in=
 them how should I be storing them. Should I convert it to a byte[] and sto=
re them, use the writeUTF() method on one of the OutputStream classes or sh=
ould I be doing something special? The requirement is I store them and late=
r retrieve them for various comparisons against strings that would have wei=
rd characters in them. For eg. I would store a string "Can=E2" and later re=
trieve it to compare it with some string that gets passed in via some metho=
d call. What is the best way of doing this? If I store them using writeUTF(=
) and later read them using readUTF() would the special characters be strip=
ped out?
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Thanks
Avinash
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