Encoding Issue: Change UTF8 with BOM char file to UTF16LE without BOM char.

Question

i am trying to read UTF 8 file with BOM char .. if BOM mark present then i want to remove that BOM char
and write same file with UTF16LE with out BOM char ..
Please suggest solution on this .
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(file);
               long size = file.length();
               byte[] b = new byte[(int) size];
               int bytesRead = fis.read(b, 0, (int) size);
               if (bytesRead != size) {
                    throw new IOException("cannot read file");
               byte[] srcBytes = b;
                        int b0 = srcBytes[0] & 0xff;
               int b1 = srcBytes[1] & 0xff;
               int b2 = srcBytes[2] & 0xff;
               int b3 = srcBytes[3] & 0xff;
               if (b0 == 0xef && b1 == 0xbb && b2 == 0xbf) {
                    System.out.println("Hint: the file starts with a UTF-8 BOM.");
                         String srcStr = new String(b ,"UTF8");
                 String      encoding= "UnicodeLittle";
                        writeFile(filePath, srcStr,encoding);// Here is writing file with UTF16LE
     But files gets written with BOM char .
how do i remove this .
Please suggest solution on this

Answer 1

'uncle_alice' - in the OP's other thread on this topic I posted a decorated InputStream class that will strip of any (well any I could find definitions of) BOM prefix. Using this it is almost trivial for the OP to convert a file from one encoding to another without worrying about the BOM. I showed him the water but I can't make him drink.