How to write a UTF-8 file with Java?

Question

I have some current code and the problem is its creating a 1252 codepage file, i want to force it to create a UTF-8 file

Can anyone help me with this code, as i say

Answer 1

Instead of using FileWriter, create a FileOutputStream. You can then wrap this in an OutputStreamWriter, which allows you to pass an encoding in the constructor. Then you can write your data to that inside a try-with-resources Statement:

try (OutputStreamWriter writer =
             new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(PROPERTIES_FILE), StandardCharsets.UTF_8))
    // do stuff
}