Thread: Certain Chinese Characters not displayed properly.

We are retrieving Chinese data from a file and displaying it to our web page. However, for some reason, certain chinese characters are destroyed, thus resulting to 3 different characters instead of 1 character.

I found out that:
If we directly copy the bytes from the file into a new file, the chinese chars can be viewed properly in our web browser.
If we save the bytes into a new String, the chinese is displayed properly but 1 or 2 characters are destroyed (displaying 3 different garbage characters each).

Any idea on how to resolve this? Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks and Regards,
Kerwin

Hello,

Make sure your file is stored using UTF-8 then open this file using the following snippet of code.

    public String readUTF8FileAsString(final String filePath) {
        try {
            final StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
            final BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(filePath), "UTF-8"));
 
            String line;
 
            while ((line = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null) {
                stringBuilder.append(line);
            }
 
            bufferedReader.close();
 
            return stringBuilder.toString();
 
        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
 
        return null;
    }

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