Why is Java BufferedReader() not reading Arabic and Chinese characters correctly?

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FileReader javadoc:

Convenience class for reading character files. The constructors of this class assume that the default character encoding and the default byte-buffer size are appropriate. To specify these values yourself, construct an InputStreamReader on a FileInputStream.

So:

Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(fileName), "utf-8");
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(reader);

If this still doesn’t work, then perhaps your console is not set to properly display UTF-8 characters. Configuration depends on the IDE used and is rather simple.

Update : In the above code replace utf-8 with cp1256. This works fine for me (WinXP, JDK6)

But I’d recommend that you insist on the file being generated using UTF-8. Because cp1256 won’t work for Chinese and you’ll have similar problems again.

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