[SOLVED] (Java) reading non-english characters from text file

[Balazs_noob]

Hi guys

i am just started to learn Spanish and i have decided, that because
i am learning Java too i will write a software that will help me remember the words :)

it would just write the word in English and i would have to write the word in Spanish and it would check if it is good or not...

but i have a problem with reading in non-English characters
like á from the text file, it shows some other weird symbol :(

Hope somebody can help a poor student :)
Here is the code:


import java.io.*;

public class Input {

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
BufferedReader inputStream = null ;

try {
inputStream = new BufferedReader (new FileReader("spanish.txt"));

String str ;
while ((str = inputStream.readLine())!=null){
System.out.println(str);
}
} catch(FileNotFoundException e) {
System.out.println("Bad file name!!");
} finally {
if (inputStream != null) {
inputStream.close();
}
}
}
}


i think i would need to change the char set

[kknd]

Java uses UTF-8 by default. It should work out-of-the-box.

Are you sure the document is ok? If it's not in UTF-8, try to export as it.

[Ragazzo]

You get garbled text when the file uses a different encoding. Use file spanish.txt to see what encoding the file is using. If it reports that the text is ISO-8859, use iconv -f latin1 -t utf8 spanish.txt -o output.txt to convert it.

[Balazs_noob]

Thanks guys you were right :)
i just had to changed the encoding of "spanish.txt"
in Gedit to utf-8

Thanks again :popcorn: