The ultimate goal is to write the file with different encoding types (ANSI/UTF-8/UTF-8 without BOM):
The Code which I will be referring through out this post would be below
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
OutputStreamWriter osw = null;
try{
//Example to write a file into file system
//Charset windows1252 = Charset.forName("windows-1252");
String filePath="D:\\temp\\";
filePath = filePath.concat(String.valueOf(new Date().getTime())).concat(".txt");
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(filePath,false);
osw = new OutputStreamWriter(fos,"UTF-8");
osw.write("Sample");
osw.write("\uFEFF");
osw.write("File");
//osw.write(Charset.forName("UTF-8").encode("Sample"));
osw.close();
System.out.println("Success");
fos.close();
}
catch(Exception e)
{
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
osw.close();
}
}
Scenario 1: (You want to write a file with "ANSI" encoding) Below url helps
Writing straight forwardly(Simple plain text) would save the file in ANSI format even though your output stream reader has a character set "UTF-8". It is because there are no UTF-8 characters that you are writing. Unless you write UTF-8 characters the file will not change from ANSI.
But if your requirement is not this, You have simple plain text but you have to write a file in UTF-8 Encoding you have to go through below,
Scenario 2: UTF-8 Encoding is divided into two types 1. With BOM and 2. Without BOM
Following piece of code helps to write a file with BOM,
Here adding \uFEFF character at initial block would make this file as UTF-8 with BOM,
The result of above code is shown below
Now your requirement is still not this, You have a simple plain text but you want to write the file with encoding as "Encoding in UTF-8 without BOM". Please refer scenario 3.
Scenario 3: (Write file using UTF-8 without BOM).
You just have to make sure you write "\uFEFF" character to make the file as "UTF-8" and write it after some simple text to make the encoding as "UTF-8 without BOM".
The result would be as shown below
Note : The encoding what this post is talking about all are taken from Notepad++
