Write Java String to file with special encoding

delphi, encoding, file-io, java

Solution

If I run

String text = "ôð¤ Ø$î1<¨ V¸dPžÐ ÀH@ˆàÀༀ@`~€4";
Writer writer = new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream("test.txt"), "windows-1252");
writer.append(text);
writer.close();
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream("test.txt"), "windows-1252"));
String line = br.readLine();
br.close();
System.out.println(line.length() + ": '" + line + "' matches " + line.equals(text));

it prints

32: 'ôð¤ Ø$î1<¨ V¸dPžÐ ÀH@ˆàÀༀ@`~€4' matches true

so no characters are lost in translation.

If I change the encoding to "US-ASCII" I get the following output

32: '??? ?$?1<? V?dP?? ?H@??????@`~?4' matches false

Problem

I have got the Java String `ôð¤ Ø$î1<¨ V¸dPžÐ ÀH@ˆàÀༀ@`~€4` which I would like to write to a file with ANSI encoding. ``` BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(output),"windows-1252")); try { out.append(str); } finally { out.close(); } ``` Debugger says that `str` contains `ôð¤ Ø$î1<¨ V¸dPÐ ÀH@àÀà¼@`~4. As soon as I write it to the output file, the file only contains `?ÒÜ@4`. So whats wrong with my method writing to the File? Sorry for this weird strings - I am trying to rewrite a delphi 7 function in java. These strings are the only samples I have got.

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