Reading a file with UTF-8 contents

Question

Hi,
I am not sure whether this is the right forum for my question. If not, please tell me.
I have a problem reading a file where some characters are stored in UTF-8. An example string from the file is: "M\u00f6hrchen"
But If I read this in, with a BufferedReader this becomes "M\\u00f6hrchen". Why is this so?
The code is the following:
BufferedReader reader= new BufferedReader(
                           new InputStreamReader(
                               new FileInputStream(filename, "UTF-8"));          
while (reader.ready()) {
     String line= reader.readLine();
}Any hints what is going wrong? It must be something with the input stream, since writing the String directly into the code works.
Marco

Answer 1

First - "\u00f6" isn't UTF-8 encoding; it's a unicode
escape sequence.
UTF-8 encoding would mean that your character is
actually stored as a single unicde character - not 6
ascii characters.Oh, than I misunderstood this.
Second, just do:
BufferedReader reader= new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(
new
new
new FileInputStream(filename));          
while (reader.ready()) {    
String line= reader.readLine();
I tried this along with other encodings. Nothing worked correctly. The output of specifiying UTF-8 and nothing is the same. Java seems to not understand that this is a unicode escape sequence, but rather escapes the backslash.