Thai Language Encoding with TIS-620

Hi All,
I have a file which has few Thai language words.I need to decode with TIS-620 charset.
I have tried with a standalone program.When I run the program and try to print the local lang program..it simply prints ??? in Eclipse console......When I try to print the Byte Array with the charset Name=TIS-620, it gives me..[B@7d772e and when I try to print it after decode the array of bytes with given char set as ISO8859_1..it prints some garbage characters....��
I am attaching the java code I have been trying and also the file which I am trying to read.
{code}import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.DataOutputStream;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
public class te {
     private static final String ISO = "ISO8859_1";
     private static String charsetTobeChanged="TIS-620";
     public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception{
     BufferedReader brFile;
     String inFileName=null ;
     String inLine,inLine_BENE_NAME,decode_LL_BENE_NAME ;
     inLine_BENE_NAME="test";
     FileOutputStream fos2=new FileOutputStream("C:\\Documents and Settings\\Desktop\\asPerBaseFile.dat");
     DataOutputStream output = new DataOutputStream (fos2);
     final String NEXT_LINE = "\n";
     inFileName= "C:\\Documents and Settings\\D150911\\Desktop\\latestBaseFile.dat" ;
     String newStrLine,newDecodedBeneName;
     try{
          brFile = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(inFileName), "UTF-8"));
          while ((inLine = brFile.readLine()) != null) {
               try{
                    inLine_BENE_NAME = getField(inLine, inLine.length(), 78, 128).trim();
                    if (inLine_BENE_NAME!=null && inLine_BENE_NAME.length()>0)
                                   decode_LL_BENE_NAME = decode(inLine_BENE_NAME.getBytes(charsetTobeChanged),ISO);
                                   newDecodedBeneName= fillSpace(decode_LL_BENE_NAME,50);
                                   newStrLine=inLine.substring(0, 78).concat(newDecodedBeneName).concat(inLine.substring(128));
                                   output.writeBytes(newStrLine);
                                   output.writeBytes(NEXT_LINE);
                    else
                         output.writeBytes(inLine);
               }//end try
               catch (Exception encodeE)
                              System.out.println(" exception in Encoding=="+encodeE);
          }//end while
     }//end of try
     catch(Exception e)
               System.out.println("File not found= or any other exception ==="+e);
     //getField
     public static String getField(String lineString, int lineLength, int startPos, int endPos) throws Exception {
          String outString;
          try {
               if (lineLength >= endPos) {
                    outString = lineString.substring(startPos, endPos);
               } else
                    if (lineLength >= startPos) {
                         outString = lineString.substring(startPos, lineLength);
                    } else {
                         outString = "";
               return(outString);
          catch (Exception ex) {
               throw ex;
     public static String decode(byte[] pvBytes, String pvTargetCodePage) throws Exception
     if(pvBytes == null)
     return "";
     return new String(pvBytes, pvTargetCodePage);
     public static String fillSpace(String field_value, int number_of_digit)
     String add_space = "";
     if (field_value.length() < number_of_digit) {
     for (int j=0; j<(number_of_digit - field_value.length()); j++) {
     add_space = add_space + " ";
     field_value = field_value + add_space;
     return field_value;
} // fillSpace
}//end class
And the file which I am trying to read is following..please copy and paste as a file...
000001 7441 7454797 2721001477 000000050030932 080429 0190014754              ผู้จัดการโรงเรียนมัธยมวิจัยระเบียบเกณฑ์ด้านดื้อดืฉ
000002 7441 7454797 1681016631 000000057153890 080429 0190014757              ศึกษาดื้อดื้อดื้อดื้อดื้อดื้อดื้อดื้อช่องวิทยาชนฉั
000003 7441 7454797 4162503389 000000090107942 080429 0190014762              ผู้จัดการโรงเรียนมัธยมวิจัยระเบียบเกณฑ์ด้านดื้อดืฉ
000004 9100 7454797 0000000000 000000197292764 000000
==============================================
The above line is just a seperator...It can be noticed in the given file above the 3rd last line after LL has a Thai word which needs to be encoded....
I mean ,I want to decode it with Char set TIS-620 so that when I open it in IE..Thai language can be viewed by Thai encoding.
Please help.
Edited by: InfoRequired on Jul 11, 2008 1:11 AM

Thank you for the help!.
True, I read the article you provided but it was a bit confusing if I read for the first time.
anyways, you summarised well.I tried with following,read the file,did string manipulation then simplay wrote to a file with require character encoding.
Preview:
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
public class forumHelp {
     private static String charsetTobeChanged="TIS-620";
     public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception{
     BufferedReader brFile;
     //OutputStreamWriter f1;
     String inFileName=null ;
     //String outFileName=null;
     String inLine,inLine_BENE_NAME;
     inLine_BENE_NAME="test";
     //ouput stream writer
     FileOutputStream fileOut = new FileOutputStream ("C:\\Documents and Settings\\Desktop\\forumHelp2.dat",true);
     OutputStreamWriter out1;
     out1 = new OutputStreamWriter (fileOut, charsetTobeChanged);
     out1.flush();
     final String NEXT_LINE = "\n";
     inFileName= "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Desktop\\latestBaseFile.dat" ;
     String newStrLine,newDecodedBeneName;
     try{
          brFile         = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(inFileName), "UTF-8"));
          //f1         =new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(outFileName), charsetTobeChanged);
          while ((inLine = brFile.readLine()) != null) {
               try{
                    inLine_BENE_NAME      = getField(inLine, inLine.length(), 78, 128).trim();
                    if (inLine_BENE_NAME!=null && inLine_BENE_NAME.length()>0)
                                   newDecodedBeneName= fillSpace(inLine_BENE_NAME,50);
                                   newStrLine=inLine.substring(0, 78).concat(newDecodedBeneName).concat(inLine.substring(128));
                                   out1.write(newStrLine);
                                   out1.write(NEXT_LINE);
                    else
                         out1.write(inLine);
               }//end try
               catch (Exception encodeE)
                              System.out.println(" exception in Encoding=="+encodeE);
          }//end while
     }//end of try
     catch(Exception e)
               System.out.println("File not found= or any other exception ==="+e);
     out1.close();
     //getField
     public static String getField(String lineString, int lineLength, int startPos, int endPos) throws Exception {
          String outString;
          try {
               if (lineLength >= endPos) {
                    outString = lineString.substring(startPos, endPos);
               } else
                    if (lineLength >= startPos) {
                         outString = lineString.substring(startPos, lineLength);
                    } else {
                         outString = "";
               return(outString);
          catch (Exception ex) {
               throw ex;
     public static String fillSpace(String field_value, int number_of_digit)
                    String add_space = "";
                  if (field_value.length() < number_of_digit) {
                          for (int j=0; j<(number_of_digit - field_value.length()); j++) {
                                  add_space = add_space + " ";
                  field_value = field_value + add_space;
                  return field_value;
     } // fillSpace
}//end classThank you all again!

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