Writing plain-text files in UTF-8 encoding under MacOSX

Question

Hello forums,
I've run into some problem writing text-files under MacOSX. I've tried several methods of writing, the current one I'm using is as follows;
private void stringToFile(File file, String string) throws IOException
    OutputStream fout = new FileOutputStream(file);
    OutputStream bout = new BufferedOutputStream(fout);
    OutputStreamWriter out = new OutputStreamWriter(bout, "UTF-8");
    out.write(string);
    out.close();
}However, when I open the file letters other than A-Z appear corrupted in Text-Edit, though in BBEdit the file is identified as UTF-8 without BOM. (still corrupt.)
The application uses some components I am not so familiar with, which makes trouble-shooting less of a breeze.
It is a spring-framework web-app, and the string to be written is passed to the application through a HTTPClient.
The string itself is constructed by
MultipartFile content = multipartRequest.getFile(CONTENT_PARAM_NAME);
String contentStr = (content != null) ? new String(content.getBytes(), "UTF-8") : null;and is created client-side by
new FilePart("content", new ByteArrayPartSource("content", strContent.getBytes()), "", "UTF-8")I would appreciate any clues you have hinting towards a solution.
I have tried to isolate parts by f.ex. writing a fixed string (which still would not work properly, which leads me to think that the HTTPClient/Spring part is not to blaim).
Message was edited by:
joakim.back

Answer 1

Good idea,
I'm now ensuring that the hashcode of the clientside and serverside String match, supply the bytes as UTF-8, and write it properly with
private void stringToFile(File file, String string) throws IOException
    BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(
                new OutputStreamWriter(
                            new FileOutputStream(file), "UTF8"));
    out.write(string);
    out.close();
}I adjusted the stringToFile earlier, so I'm not sure wether the old code still works.
TextEdit under MacOSX still view the files as corrupt, but BBEdit and EditPlus under windows view the result fine.
Lessons learned? Beeing very careful about identifying sub-tasks and dealing with them separately.
..ofcourse, my job is not done since the damned applescripts dealing with the output treats the files as TextEdit do, but that's a task for tomorrow.
Thank you for your assistance!