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Not Quite Right (Score:2)

by Dom2 (2981)
The problem with doing things like this is that you are completely ignoring the encoding. Encoding is one of the reason why there are parallel IO hierarchies in Java: InputStream [sun.com]/OutputStream [sun.com] vs Reader [sun.com]/Writer [sun.com]. The latter understand characters, the former understand bytes. Unfortunately, every time you go near a Reader/Writer, you need to specify a character encoding. As a rule, I try to prefer Reader/Writer where I can.
Classes to look at:
- java.io.OutputStreamWriter [sun.com] — Convert from an OutputS
- Re:Not Quite Right (Score:2)
  
  by lachoy (1663) <chris.winters@gmail.com> on 2008.02.10 22:10 (#61000) Homepage Journal
  
  The commons io [apache.org] library has implementations for useful stuff like this -- see IOUtils#toString() for a stream (with default encoding or with a specified one).
  
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    by jdavidb (1361)
    
    Thanks for the pointer!
    
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