Java InputStream encoding/charset

Question

Running the following (example) code

import java.io.*;

public class test {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        byte[] buf          


        

Answer 1

As noted, getBytes() (no-arguments) uses the Java platform default encoding, which may not be ISO-8859-1. Simply printing it should work, provided your terminal and the default encoding match and support the character. For instance, on my system, the terminal and default Java encoding are both UTF-8. The fact that you're seeing a '?' indicates that yours don't match or å is not supported.

If you want to manually encode to UTF-8 on your system, do:

String s = r.readLine();
byte[] utf8Bytes = s.getBytes("UTF-8");

It should give a byte array with {-61, -91}.