Problems with Swedish letters using ByteArrayOutputStream in Android - locale

Question

I am using ByteArrayOutputStream to put text in a Text View from an IputStream.
This works fine but...
I am from Sweden and when I put a text with some special Swedish letters it puts ? instead of the actual letter. The system have no problems with this letters otherwise.
Hope someone out there can give me a hint about what to do.
Perhaps I shall show the code:
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
TextView helloTxt = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.hellotxt);
helloTxt.setText(readTxt());
}
private String readTxt(){
InputStream inputStream = getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.hello);
ByteArrayOutputStream byteArrayOutputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
int i;
try {
i = inputStream.read();
while (i != -1)
{
byteArrayOutputStream.write(i);
i = inputStream.read();
}
inputStream.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
return byteArrayOutputStream.toString();
}
}
I also tied this, get it from the forum (Selzier):
Nice peace but still no Swedish letters in the output:
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
TextView tv = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.txtRawResource);
tv.setText(readFile(this, R.raw.saga));
}
private static CharSequence readFile(Activity activity, int id) {
BufferedReader in = null;
try {
in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
activity.getResources().openRawResource(id)));
String line;
StringBuilder buffer = new StringBuilder();
while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) buffer.append(line).append('\n');
return buffer;
}
catch (IOException e) {
return "";
}
finally {
closeStream(in);
}
}
/**
* Closes the specified stream.
*/
private static void closeStream(Closeable stream) {
if (stream != null) {
try {
stream.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
// Ignore
}
}
}
}

Answer 1

You are using the wrong encoding when you read/write the stream. Use UTF-8.
outputStream.toString("UTF8")
Edit: try this approach posted here. I think it can also be a issue if your file has a BOM. Use NotePad++ or another editor to remove it.
public static String readRawTextFile(Context ctx, int resId)
{
InputStream inputStream = ctx.getResources().openRawResource(resId);
InputStreamReader inputreader = new InputStreamReader(inputStream);
BufferedReader buffreader = new BufferedReader(inputreader);
String line;
StringBuilder text = new StringBuilder();
try {
while (( line = buffreader.readLine()) != null) {
text.append(line);
text.append('\n');
}
} catch (IOException e) {
return null;
}
return text.toString();
}