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Ankur
Ankur

Reputation: 12774

What is Java's equivalent of Windows Notepad "Unicode Encoding"?

I have tab-separated values which I need to export as a text file using Java, to be opened in Microsoft Excel. The problem arises when the tab-separated values have Chinese characters.

I tried exporting the text file using UTF-8 but Excel is not able to interpret the characters. Then I opened the exported text file in Notepad and saved it as "Unicode" and it started showing the correct charters in Excel.

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So can someone tell me what is the Notepad "Unicode" equivalent in Java?

My code is:

response.getOutputStream().write(reportHTML.getBytes("UTF-8"));

Where reportHTML has tab-separated values.

This is the text file with encoding as Unicode.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1549

Answers (3)

Esailija
Esailija

Reputation: 140220

That means "UTF-16LE", and every java platform implementation is required to support it.

response.getOutputStream().write(reportHTML.getBytes("UTF-16LE"));

The notepad unicode encoding also inserts the UTF-16LE BOM FF FE at the start of the file.

Upvotes: 1

Joachim Sauer
Joachim Sauer

Reputation: 308031

In a Windows environment, when an encoding is called "Unicode" then it usually refers to UCS-2 or UTF-16.

Upvotes: 0

Dima Kurilo
Dima Kurilo

Reputation: 2276

Try add BOM to first byte of file. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark

Upvotes: 0

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