Read utf-8 using Scanner

Question

I am having trouble with UTF-8 encoding when using Scanner. Example two lines of my data file:

000001 Mėlynas Tadas 63210309683 V 2003/03/17 2016/03/17 
000002 Raudonas Tomas 65505023282 V 2006/01/26 2018/01/26

Currently I am using Scanner to read the text separately instead of the whole line as this is more convenient, but it doesn't read correctly because of the encoding. I've read about using InputStream etc but I don't want to deal with messy line chopping. Is there a way to use Scanner with UTF-8?

Solution 1

This code snippet might help:

Locale loc = new Locale("es", "ES");
Scanner sc = new Scanner(new FileInputStream(file), "UTF-8");
sc.useLocale(loc);

Solution 2

Have you tried, Scanner myScanner = new Scanner("myFile", "UTF-8");

Comments

[Justin]

Sadly, it didn't. The problem probably occurs when the data is checked by setters which are called with a constructor when data is being read. As I've made data checks in my constructors, they tell me that the data is bad.

[aviad]

I am very bad at guessing what your code does :) would you mind sharing it and be more specific?

[Justin]

I was thinking how do I do this in the most efficient way and ended up uploading the whole project. I hope this helps to understand my problem: drive.google.com/…

[Justin]

Ohh wait, I just realised I'm an idiot, since I've added data to my data file and didn't alter the code to read it correctly...