Encoding problem with servlet

Question

I am using java servlet to submit an Arabic string to some java class and save this Arabic string in text file.
The problem is in the encoding, where the Arabic query is not saved correctly inside the text
file. The same program is work fine using java.
Getting the query (Unicode: Arabic windows) from servlet:
     String query = request.getParameter("query".trim());
Saving it in the text file:
     ps = new PrintStream(new FileOutputStream(
                    "C:/file/1.txt"),true,"utf-8");
          ps.println(query);
As I said the same task is done correctly using java. Where I submit a utf-8 string and save it inside the text file.
I tried also to convert the Arabic windows code to utf and then save it inside the text file but this also doesn’t help: query = new String (query.getBytes("utf-8"));
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Edited by: [email protected] on Oct 6, 2009 6:52 AM

Answer 1

I've tried the following code and it worked for me :
               response.setContentType("text/html");
          String param = request.getParameter("test");
          String query =new String(param.getBytes("ISO-8859-1"),"UTF-8");
          PrintStream ps = new PrintStream(new FileOutputStream(
          "C:/1.txt"));
          ps.write((query.getBytes("UTF-8")));
          ps.close();