Check line for unprintable characters while reading text file

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Open the file with a FileInputStream, then use an InputStreamReader with the UTF-8 Charset to read characters from the stream, and use a BufferedReader to read lines, e.g. via BufferedReader#readLine, which will give you a string. Once you have the string, you can check for characters that aren’t what you consider to be printable.

E.g. (without error checking), using try-with-resources (which is in vaguely modern Java version):

String line;
try (
    InputStream fis = new FileInputStream("the_file_name");
    InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(fis, Charset.forName("UTF-8"));
    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr);
) {
    while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
        // Deal with the line
    }
}

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