Reading from property file containing utf 8 character

Question

I am reading a property file which consists of a message in the UTF-8 character set.

Problem

The output is not in the appropriate format.

Answer 1

You should specify the UTF-8 encoding when you construct your FileInputStream object. You can use this constructor:

new FileInputStream("uinsoaptest.properties", "UTF-8");

If you want to make a change to your JVM so as to be able to read UTF-8 files by default, you will have to change the JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS in your JVM options to something like this :

-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8