how can I know file's locale?

Question

I want to read a file(like .txt) and do std::cout.

but if the file's locale doesn't same with my system's locale, it will print weird.

this is my question. how can I know the file's locale?

if I can get file's locale, I can change system's locale to file's locale and it will print clearly.

Where are you reading the file from? on local file system or from remote source? You would have to just use the appropriate encoding in your reader. — Babajide Prince, Jan 22 '14 at 08:03
What is the content of the file? What output are you getting. — Gusdor, Jan 22 '14 at 08:12
and the file is on local file system. and content is just string. I'll just check the file is written with chinese locale, or japanese, etc.. — Kim, Jan 22 '14 at 08:16

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 22 '14 at 08:09

Read file using something like:

new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(...), )

For encoding Use the required encoding based on file source, you can guess that or try UTF-8 for a test.

Example:

String file = "file location";
    String encoding = "utf-8";
    try {
        new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(file), encoding);
    } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
        System.out.println("Encoding Uknown " + encoding);
    } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

how can I know file's locale?

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