Re: Reading and writing files character encoding

Tony,

Are you using InputStream or InputStreamReader? 

InputStreamReader allows you to specify a character set and decoder.  I 
believe, the default is "US-ASCII".

In some applications I had to explicitly specify "ISO-8859-1".  Also, 
try the "UTF-16" and see if that solves the problem.

I usually reference the Charset documentation which gives several 
choices ... 
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html

Send a summary of your results.

Thanks
Conrad

Tony Spencer wrote:
> Hi,
> I am attempting to read a simple XML feed over HTTP and write it to my 
> local disk.  The feed has some spanish in it so there are non-US 
> characters present.  Currently I use a BufferedReader and InputStream 
> to read the feed and I write it to disk with FileWriter.  The problem 
> is that the non-US characters (such as the second character in this 
> provice http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaga) are mangled in the local 
> copy that is written.
>
> Can someone explain how to deal with different character encodings in 
> cases such as this?  Do you need to know the encoding of the content 
> you are receiving?
>
> Thanks,
> Tony
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