The i18n Cookbook - recipies for a global society

Problem:

You want to read a Unicode encoded file into memory.

Solution:

To read a file with a charset other than the system default you should specify the charset in the reader.  You can specify either a Charset or the String id of the Charset.

To read a Unicode file containing Japanese characters:

Problem:

You want to display Japanese, Chinese, or other Unicode characters in the Eclipse console.

Solution:

By default the eclipse console does not handle Unicode.  All Unicode characters in the Eclipse console are replaced by question marks. Luckily it is a simple matter to get Unicode characters to display. You will need to make two simple modifications to the run dialog.