Reading InputStream as UTF-8

Question

I'm trying to read from a text/plain file over the internet, line-by-line. The code I have right now is:

URL url = new URL("http://kuehldesign.net/test.txt"); BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(url.openStream())); LinkedList<String> lines = new LinkedList(); String readLine;  while ((readLine = in.readLine()) != null) {     lines.add(readLine); }  for (String line : lines) {     out.println("> " + line); } 

The file, test.txt, contains ¡Hélló!, which I am using in order to test the encoding.

When I review the OutputStream (out), I see it as > ¡Hélló!. I don't believe this is a problem with the OutputStream since I can do out.println("é"); without problems.

Any ideas for reading form the InputStream as UTF-8? Thanks!

Answer 1

Solved my own problem. This line:

BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(url.openStream())); 

needs to be:

BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(url.openStream(), "UTF-8")); 

or since Java 7:

BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(url.openStream(), StandardCharsets.UTF_8)); 

Answer 2

String file = "";  try {      InputStream is = new FileInputStream(filename);     String UTF8 = "utf8";     int BUFFER_SIZE = 8192;      BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is,             UTF8), BUFFER_SIZE);     String str;     while ((str = br.readLine()) != null) {         file += str;     } } catch (Exception e) {  } 

Try this,.. :-)