Problems reading a text file from assets with rare characters (á é à è...)

Question

i have a txt file on assets folder with content with rare characters, for example with this content:

Hola

Holà holá es un vetélélà Holà holá es un vetélélà Holà holá es un vetélélà Holà holá es un vetélélà Holà holá es un vetélélà

And i'm using this code for read the txt file from assets and store it on a string:

public static String readTxt(Context context, String fileName){
    try {           
        AssetManager am = context.getAssets();
        InputStream is = am.open(fileName);         
        ByteArrayOutputStream byteArrayOutputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();          
        int i= is.read(); 

        while (i != -1){
            byteArrayOutputStream.write(i);
            i = is.read();
        }
        is.close();                     
        return byteArrayOutputStream.toString();
    } catch (Exception e) {e.printStackTrace();}
    return "";
}

The text is being readed with the correct format (spaces and line jumps are OK), but the rare characters (á à é è... ) are not being readed correctly. I'm reading this:

Hola\r\n\r\nHol� hol� es un vet�l�l� Hol� hol� es un vet�l�l� Hol� hol� es un vet�l�l� Hol� hol� es un vet�l�l� Hol� hol� es un vet�l�l�

What i'm doing bad? how can read that text correctly from ASSETS ?

here you have the documentation: Returns the contents of this ByteArrayOutputStream as a string. Any changes made to the receiver after returning will not be reflected in the string returned to the caller. — NullPointerException, Jan 07 '13 at 15:12
good. now read the documentation for the method right above that one. — njzk2, Jan 07 '13 at 15:13
i tryed with byteArrayOutputStream.toString("UTF-8"); but the result is the same, i don't know what im doing wrong... It's just a txt file from notepad. — NullPointerException, Jan 07 '13 at 15:15
i tryed also with US-ASCII, (no ansi on the possibilities) and didn't works. — NullPointerException, Jan 07 '13 at 15:18
well, i stored the file in UTF-8 and now the problem is solved!!! THANKS A LOT!!! — NullPointerException, Jan 07 '13 at 15:20

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 07 '13 at 15:21

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I just have to get the string with byteArrayOutputStream.toString("UTF-8"); and store the txt file with UTF-8 encoding :)

thanks a lot to njzk2

answered Jan 07 '13 at 15:21

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