How can i read a Russian file in Java?

Question

I tried adding UTF-8 for this but it didn't work out. What should i do for reading a Russian file in Java?

      FileInputStream fstream1 = new FileInputStream("russian.txt");
      DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(fstream1);
      BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in,"UTF-8"));

Answer 1

If the file is from Windows PC, try either "windows-1251" or "Cp1251" for the charset name.

If the file is somehow in the MS-DOS encoding, try using "Cp866".

Both of these are single-byte encodings and changing the file type to UTF-8 (which is multibyte) does nothing.

If all else fails, use the hex editor and dump a few hex lines of these file to you question. Then we'll detect the encoding.

Answer 2

As others mentioned you need to know how the file is encoded. A simple check is to (ab)use Firefox as an encoding detector: answer to similar question

If this is a display problem, it depends what you mean by "reads": in the console, in some window? See also How can I make a String with cyrillic characters display correctly?