Character encoding using Java

[Jitesh Sinha]

I need to write a file to my m/c.The file's content should be localized.Data is present in localized languages in database.
I have constructed htmlstring based on that data.but when I open the file(fileNameString) using browser,I get all garbage.

Any pointers?

Here is the code I am using :-

FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(fileNameString, true);


OutputStreamWriter osw = new OutputStreamWriter(fos, "UTF-8");

osw.write(htmlstring);

osw.close();

[Peter Chase]

How have you checked the contents of "htmlstring"? You need to be sure it really is correct.

Assuming "htmlstring" contains the correct characters, encoded in UTF-16 (that's how all Java Strings are encoded), then your code looks as if it would successfully write it to the file using UTF-8 encoding.

When you open a Web site via HTTP, the browser receives various HTTP headers. The "Content-Type" header is important for you. For a UTF-8 file, it would typically be "Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8".

But when you open a local file in a Web browser, there are no HTTP headers (obviously). But you can include an HTML meta element to specify the encoding:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

That might work.