utf 8 - Display Hindi language in console using Java

Question

StringBuffer contents=new StringBuffer();
BufferedReader input =  new BufferedReader(new FileReader("/home/xyz/abc.txt"));
String line = null; //not declared within while loop
while (( line = input.readLine()) != null){
    contents.append(line);
}
System.out.println(contents.toString());

File abc.txt contains

u0905u092du0940 u0938u092eu092f u0939u0948 u091cu0928u0924u093e u091cu094b u091au093eu0939u0924u0940 u0939u0948 u092

I want to dispaly in Hindi language in console using Java.

if i simply print like this String str="u0905u092du0940 u0938u092eu092f u0939u0948 u091cu0928u0924u093e u091cu094b u091au093eu0939u0924u0940 u0939u0948 u092";

System.out.println(str);

then it works fine but when i try to read from a file it doesn't work.

help me out.

Answer 1

Use Apache Commons Lang.

import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringEscapeUtils;

// open the file as ASCII, read it into a string, then
String escapedStr; // = "u0905u092du0940 u0938u092eu092f u0939u0948 ..."
// (to include such a string in a Java program you would have to double each )

String hindiStr = StringEscapeUtils.unescapeJava( escapedStr );

System.out.println(hindiStr);

(Make sure your console is set up to display Hindi (correct fonts, etc) and the console's encoding matches your Java encoding. The Java code above is just the bare bones.)