java: how to convert a file to utf8

Question

i have a file that have some non-utf8 caracters (like \"ISO-8859-1\"), and so i want to convert that file (or read) to UTF8 encoding, how i can do it?

The code it\'s

Answer 1

  String charset = "ISO-8859-1"; // or what corresponds
  BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader( 
      new InputStreamReader (new FileInputStream(file), charset));
  String line;
  while( (line = in.readLine()) != null) { 
    ....
  }

There you have the text decoded. You can write it, by the simmetric Writer/OutputStream methods, with the encoding you prefer (eg UTF-8).