How to convert a Reader to InputStream and a Writer to OutputStream?

Question

Is there an easy way to avoid dealing with text encoding problems?

Answer 1

A warning when using WriterOutputStream - it doesn't always handle writing binary data to a file properly/the same as a regular output stream. I had an issue with this that took me awhile to track down.

If you can, I'd recommend using an output stream as your base, and if you need to write strings, use an OUtputStreamWriter wrapper around the stream to do it. It is far more reliable to convert text to bytes than the other way around, which is likely why WriterOutputStream is not a part of the standard Java library