Utf 8 file java

Can anyone help me with this code, as i say it currently works You can then wrap this in an OutputStreamWriter , which allows you to pass an encoding in the constructor. Then you can write your data to that inside a try-with-resources Statement :. Try using FileUtils. Since Java 7 you can do the same with Files. The Java 7 Files utility type is useful for working with files:. Or Click here.

Below sample code can read file line by line and write new file in UTF-8 format. Also, i am explicitly specifying Cp encoding. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams?

Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. How to write a UTF-8 file with Java? Ask Question. Asked 12 years, 7 months ago. Active 3 years, 8 months ago. Viewed k times. I have some current code and the problem is its creating a codepage file, i want to force it to create a UTF-8 file Can anyone help me with this code, as i say it currently works FileWriter new java.

String src "" ; out. Adam Paynter 45k 30 30 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Please post code which passes the compiler, if possible. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Neuron 4, 4 4 gold badges 27 27 silver badges 48 48 bronze badges.

It does seem like an odd oversight. And they still haven't fixed it. Jon Skeet: Given that FileWriter is a wrapper for FileOutputStream that assumes the default encoding and buffer size, wouldn't that defeat the point? I recommed to separate every declaration for types that implements the Closeable interface, especially if you use try with resources, like "new FileOutputStream"; is a good practice and avoid future errors like "IOException: Too many open files".

Markus Lausberg Markus Lausberg 12k 6 6 gold badges 40 40 silver badges 65 65 bronze badges. I think there is a typo. Is there a way to force that? I don't know if it's relevant or not. Smarty only if you are already using Apache Commons. Otherwise it seems an awful waste to include yet another jar just because you don't want to write a few more characters. I couldn't see a 'write.. I checked in the commons IO 1.

It looks like the write APIs were introduced from v2. Just would like to mention that I used the method FileUtils. There are various coding schemes available specifying the set of bytes represented by each character. It is developed by The Unicode Consortium. It provides 3 types of encodings. It is a fixed-width format and is always 1 "long" in length. The write UTF method of the java. DataOutputStream class accepts a String value as a parameter and writes it in using modified UTF-8 encoding, to the current output stream.

Instantiate the FileOutputStream class by passing a String value representing the path of the required file, as a parameter. Flush the contents of the OutputStream object to the file destination using the flush method.