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I wrote an Android application using Java, so that users answer questions, which are then saved in a file.
The problem is that this file is saved in UTF8
.
The end user will open this file on IBM SPSS
which is an application for Windows and only reads files in ANSI
(Windows-1252).
How I create files in ANSI
to save on memory card in my Java-Android application?
To convert Strings to ANSI
I must use:
String unicode = new String(asciiBytes, "windows-1252");
That is correct?
My old code for saving the file is:
File interviewFile = new File(placeOfSDD, fileName);
FileWriter writer = new FileWriter(interviewFile, true);
writer.append(textBody);
writer.flush();
writer.close();
"textBody" is the String to convert to ANSI
, and "interviewFile" is the file to be saved as ANSI
also.
Already to read a file on ANSI
and convert it to String with UTF8
, how do I do?
Note that the conversion of UTF8->ANSI has loss of information. There are representable characters in UTF8 that are not in ANSI. ANSI->UTF8 conversion is safe.
– luiscubal