Retrieve non English symbols from request

[Valentin Ivanov]

Hello to all,

I would like to ask you for some help. I have GET form which submits data /parameters/
to a servlet. So far so good... but the parameters data are not in English /actually in Cyrillic/.

So, how can I just write those parameters in a text file? What I have tried:

 request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF8");  // here I've used many others encoding strings such as UTF-16, Cp1252...
FileWriter file = new FileWriter("test.txt");
file.write(request.getParameter("F_Name"));      // doesn't work. In the text file is like ?????????

// so I decide to use OutputStreamWriter just to be able to change the stream encoding

File f = new File("test.txt");
FileOutputStream fw = new FileOutputStream(f);
 OutputStreamWriter f_out = new OutputStreamWriter(fw,"Cp1252");  // I've used many others encodings as well
								   // still the text file is like ????????   

Does anyone have already been down this road?