Filereader at OSX platform

Question

Hello
i use a filereader to read from a txt file.
running the programm with OS X all special characters are not shown correct.
i have searched some time to find a solution, but i can't find it.
the filereader uses the default encoding, so i can't set no charset.
maybe the filereader has no UTF-16 support at OSX platform ?
please help
String inputline = "";
FileReader txtfile = new FileReader(file);
in = new BufferedReader(txtfile);
while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null)
// do something

Answer 1

FileReader uses the system's default encoding, which most likely is not UTF-16. It's probably ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8 or some Macintosh-specific encoding.
To use a different character encoding you need to go a little longer route and use InputStreamReader with FileInputStream, like suggested in the API documentation of FileReader: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/io/FileReader.html InputStream fileStream = new FileInputStream(yourFileHere);
Reader txtfile = new InputStreamReader(fileStream, "UTF-16");
in = new BufferedReader(txtfile);
while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null)
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