All inclusive Charset to avoid “java.nio.charset.MalformedInputException: Input length = 1”?

Question

I\'m creating a simple wordcount program in Java that reads through a directory\'s text-based files.

However, I keep on getting the error:

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Answer 1

ISO-8859-1 is an all-inclusive charset, in the sense that it's guaranteed not to throw MalformedInputException. So it's good for debugging, even if your input is not in this charset. So:-

req.setCharacterEncoding("ISO-8859-1");

I had some double-right-quote/double-left-quote characters in my input, and both US-ASCII and UTF-8 threw MalformedInputException on them, but ISO-8859-1 worked.