Set an encoding scheme for InputStreamReader and ByteArrayOutputScream !!!

[kathir je]

Hi,

I would like to know how we can set the encoding scheme for InputStreamReader and ByteArrayOutputScream

I've files where few sentences with the character à

I'm using the below code snippet to convert the file input stream to bytes array

ByteArrayOutputStream stream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
BufferedReader fileReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inStream));
String line;
while ((line = fileReader.readLine()) != null) {
stream.write(line.getBytes());
stream.write((byte) '\n');
}
return stream.toByteArray();

Later after doing some operations i'm converting the bytes to string as follows

StringBuilder buf = new StringBuilder();
for (int i = 0; i < inFile.length; i++) {
byte b = inFile;
buf.append((char) b);
}
String s = buf.toString().trim();

The final converted string doesn't have the above latin character à

Is there is any way to get the string content along with the character à?

Thanks,
Kathir

[James Boswell]

How about

String s = new String(buf.toString().trim().getBytes("ISO-8859-1");

Although personally, I don't think using the style of chaining method calls on same line.