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

Since Java 7 you can do the same with Files.newBufferedWriter a little more succinctly:

Path logFile = Paths.get("/tmp/example.txt");
try (BufferedWriter writer = Files.newBufferedWriter(logFile, StandardCharsets.UTF_8)) {
    writer.write("Hello World!");
    // ...
}