Reading .txt file and non-english chars

Question

i added .txt files to my app for translations of text messages
the problem is when i read the translations, non-english characters are read wrong on my Nokia. In Sun Wireless Toolkit it works.
See the trouble is because I don't even know what is expected by phone...
UTF-8, ISO Latin 2 or Windows CP1250?
im using CLDC1.0 and MIDP1.0
What's the rigth way to do it?
here's what i have...
String locale =System.getProperty("microedition.locale");
String language = locale.substring(0,2);
String localefile="lang/"+language+".txt";
InputStream r= getClass().getResourceAsStream("/lang/"+language+".txt");
byte[] filetext=new byte[2000];
int len = 0;
try {
len=r.read(filetext);
then i get translation by
value = new String(filetext,start, i-start).trim();

Answer 1

Not sure what the issue is with the runtime. How are you outputing the file and accessing the lists? Here is a more complete sample:
public class Foo {
     final private List colons = new ArrayList();
     final private List nonColons = new ArrayList();
     static final public void main(final String[] args)
          throws Throwable {
          Foo foo = new Foo();
          foo.input();
          foo.output();
     private void input()
          throws IOException {
         BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("/temp/foo.txt"));
         String line = reader.readLine();
         while (line != null) {
             List target = line.indexOf(":") >= 0 ? colons : nonColons;
             target.add(line);
             line = reader.readLine();
         reader.close();
     private void output() {
          System.out.println("Colons:");
          Iterator itorColons = colons.iterator();
          while (itorColons.hasNext()) {
               String current = (String) itorColons.next();
               System.out.println(current);
          System.out.println("Non-Colons");
          Iterator itorNonColons = nonColons.iterator();
          while (itorNonColons.hasNext()) {
               String current = (String) itorNonColons.next();
               System.out.println(current);
}The output generated is:
Colons:
a:b
b:c
Non-Colons
a
b
c
My guess is that you are iterating through your lists incorrectly. But glad I could help.
- Saish