read file.txt in unicode

[Chameleon]

I want a small piece of code (for mobile) which reads entile file
"file.txt" from JAR and store it to a string.
"file.txt" has unicode format (2 bytes for every char)

The following code does not work:
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String s = null;
try {
DataInputStream dis = new
DataInputStream(LanguageLoader.class.getResourceAsStream("file.txt"));
s = dis.DataInputStream.readUTF();
} catch(Exception e) {
}
return s;
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[IchBin]

I want a small piece of code (for mobile) which reads entile file
"file.txt" from JAR and store it to a string.
"file.txt" has unicode format (2 bytes for every char)

The following code does not work:
---------------------------------
String s = null;
try {
DataInputStream dis = new
DataInputStream(LanguageLoader.class.getResourceAsStream("file.txt"));
s = dis.DataInputStream.readUTF();
} catch(Exception e) {
}
return s;
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Not sure if this helps but there are a few examples in the The Java
Developers Almanac 1.4

To find which file entry in zip file...
*e454. Listing the Contents of a ZIP File*
http://javaalmanac.com/egs/java.util.zip/ListZip.html?l=rel

*e455. Retrieving a Compressed File from a ZIP File*
http://javaalmanac.com/egs/java.util.zip/GetZip.html?l=rel

Thanks in Advance...
IchBin, Pocono Lake, Pa, USA
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[Svante Frey]

Unicode can be encoded in several different ways. "two bytes per char"
sounds like UTF-16 or UCS-2. The readUTF() function reads UTF-8
encoding (which uses 1-4 bytes for every Unicode character), so it
can't be used to read an UTF-16 encoded file. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode for more info.

 

[Roedy Green]

DataInputStream dis = new
DataInputStream(LanguageLoader.class.getResourceAsStream("file.txt"));
s = dis.DataInputStream.readUTF();

DataInputStream is for binary files where strings have preceding
length counts. You want a Reader with explicit encoding.

See http://mindprod.com/applets/fileio.html

 

[Roedy Green]

To find which file entry in zip file...
*e454. Listing the Contents of a ZIP File*
http://javaalmanac.com/egs/java.util.zip/ListZip.html?l=rel

you don't need the zip stuff to get an a resource. getResource and
getResourceAsStream do that for you.

getResource gives you an URL. getResourceAsStream gets you an
InputStream.