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Jamie Nash
Jamie Nash

Reputation: 11

Java Reading/Writing file changes characters?

I have a piece of code like this:

data = new String(Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get(strFileName))); 
PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(filename);
out.println(data);

When it writes...it's changing the quotation marks(and probably other stuff -- to what seems like gobbledy-gook. Maybe this is unsigned int stuff or something?

Here's the original: “4 hours TILL FULL MOON”

It changed to this: “4 hours TILL FULL MOON�

I should say there are other quotations in the file that didn't change...but several did(I know single quotes had a similar issue).

Upvotes: 0

Views: 163

Answers (2)

Raymond
Raymond

Reputation: 396

You'll have to change

PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(filename);

to

PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(filename, "ISO-8859-1");

because printwriter by default will not use ISO-8859-1 encoding.

Upvotes: 0

Ryuzaki L
Ryuzaki L

Reputation: 40078

change encoding explicitly through PrintWriter constructor, by default java might be using UTF-8

PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter("filename", "ISO-8859-1");

Upvotes: 2

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