Character Encoding

[Prem aswin]

Hi,

I have a text file that downloaded from mainframe dataset.. text file downloaded in windows Cp1256 format.

when I open the text file the arabic character contain like "ÇáåæÊíá /ÔÑßÉ ÇáÍÓíäÇä"

I try to convert by below code to display properly

String Result= new String(tokenizer.nextToken().getBytes("windows-1256"), "utf-8");

but its showing ???...

how I can convert this to display properly in arabic.

Please help.

[Jesper de Jong]

Prem aswin wrote:when I open the text file the arabic character contain like "ÇáåæÊíá /ÔÑßÉ ÇáÍÓíäÇä"

Where and how are you displaying the text? Does your Java program display them in a console window or terminal window, or in a Swing GUI?

Prem aswin wrote:but its showing ???...

Are you using a font that contains Arabic characters to display the text? If you see question marks or empty boxes, it's usually a sign that you are using a font that doesn't contain Arabic characters.

To specify with which encoding you want to read the file, and not convert it afterwards, do something like this:

BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream("myfile.txt"), "windows-1256"));

// Read a line of text
String line = in.readLine();

in.close();

[Prem aswin]

Thank you very much Mr. Jesper.

Iam displaying the text in browser..

Now its working prefectly...

[Campbell Ritchie]

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