Java examples for Internationalization:Unicode
Converting Character Streams and Buffers by using java.io.InputStreamReader to decode a byte stream to Unicode characters
import java.io.FileInputStream; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.io.OutputStreamWriter; import java.nio.charset.Charset; public class Main { public static String readStream() throws IOException { InputStream is = new FileInputStream("s.txt"); StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); if (is != null) { try (InputStreamReader reader = new InputStreamReader(is, Charset.forName("SJIS"))) { int ch = reader.read(); while (ch != -1) { sb.append((char) ch); ch = reader.read();//from w ww . j a v a2s .c o m } } } return sb.toString(); } public static void writeStream(String text) throws IOException { FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("utf8.txt"); try (OutputStreamWriter writer = new OutputStreamWriter(fos, Charset.forName("UTF-8"))) { writer.write(text); } } public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { String input = readStream(); System.out.printf("Input stream: %s\n", input); writeStream(input); } }