Problems about reading Japanese and writing Chinese

Question

Hi all experts,
Now I have a encoding problem.
My task is, read some Japanese in a text-based file, and then replace that Japanese with a Chinese string.
That means, the program must be able to understand both the Japanese encoding and the Chinese encoidng. But the dilemma is that, in the OS I am using (Windows), you can only have one locale at a time. If you set your OS locale to Chinese, the program is able to write Chinese, but it cannot properly detect the Japanese. On the othe hand, if you set your OS locale to Japanese, the program is able to detect Japanese, but it cannot properly write Chinese.
So can any one help me get around this problem (for instance, there is some special API dealing with encodings and so on)?
Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

InputStreamReader and OutputStreamWriter constructors both accept parameters to specify the encoding of the data stream.
The New IO (NIO) classes have these and additional capabilities, including converting from one encoding to another using code like this:
Charset charset = Charset.forName("ISO-8859-1");
CharsetDecoder decoder = charset.newDecoder();
CharBuffer charBuffer = decoder.decode(buffer);Look at the java.nio.charset package.