How to get InputStreamReader in ISO-8859-15?

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It seems that:

BufferedReader r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.jet), Charset.forName("ISO-8859-15")));

works. Apparently you need to send a Charset, not a String with the encoding in this case. Given this it seems strange that this works then:

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(ftp.getInputStream(), "ISO-8859-15"));
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Updated on June 04, 2022

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  • fred
    fred almost 2 years

    How can I make this inputstream read a ISO-8859-15 encoded file?

    BufferedReader r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.jet)));
    

    I found this line which seemingly works:

    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(ftp.getInputStream(), "ISO-8859-15"));
    

    But

    BufferedReader r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.jet), "ISO-8859-15"));
    

    does not.