Java App : Unable to read iso-8859-1 encoded file correctly

Question

I have a file which is encoded as iso-8859-1, and contains characters such as ô .

I am reading this file with java code, something like:

File in = n         


        

Answer 1

If you can, try to run your program in debugger to see what's inside your 's' string after it is created. It is possible that it has correct content, but output is garbled after System.out.println(s) call. In that case, there is probably mismatch between what Java thinks is encoding of your output and character encoding of your terminal/console on Linux.