Arabic jsp problem

Question

Hi All
I have problem with arabic encoding in jsp
here is my problem
I have jsp page and contains textfield
user put some text and submit the page
this text is compared with other text that read from text file
if two texts are equal some message appears to user
I have made sample project it works fin with English text
but it fails with Arabic texts
her is my sample code
<%
    String txt=request.getParameter("txt");
    if(txt!=null){
       if(MyClass.test(txt)){
           out.println("values are equal");
       }else{
           out.println("values are not equal");
    %>and method test is static method from MyClass
public static  boolean test(String x) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException{
        LineNumberReader reader=new LineNumberReader(new FileReader("c:\\test.txt"));
        String line=reader.readLine();
        return line.equals(x);
    }I have tried HTML metaTage with Arabic encoding -notworked-
and also tried <%@page with Arabic encoding also not worked
any help will be
appreciated
thanks

Answer 1

You use a Reader without specifying an encoding there. So you are using the system's default encoding. Most likely this is an encoding that does not match the actual encoding of that file which contains Arabic characters.
Change your code to use an InputStreamReader and specify the correct encoding.