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Read UTF-8 File In Java

06.07.2005
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BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("file"));
while( (s = in.readLine()) != null) {
		
	String UTF8Str = new String(s.getBytes(),"UTF-8"));
}

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Snippets Manager replied on Mon, 2012/05/07 - 2:12pm

Much better! Thanks a lot llucifer. Until this, I've never work with UTF-8 encoded files in Java. Edu

Snippets Manager replied on Mon, 2012/05/07 - 2:12pm

A better solution might be: Reader in = new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream("file"), "UTF-8"));
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