How to skip invalid characters in stream in Java/Scala?

Question

For example I have following code

Source.fromFile(new File( path), \"UTF-8\").getLines()

and it throws exception

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Answer 1

Well, if it isn't UTF-8, it is something else. The trick is finding out what that something else is, but if all you want is avoid the errors, you can use an encoding that doesn't have invalid codes, such as latin1:

Source.fromFile(new File( path), "latin1").getLines()