Hello

I'm in troble with loading text files that are not in utf-8 encoding.
They contain special characters that do not display correctly in Processing.
Is there a way I can tell Processing to load a text file in a specified encoding?
Or is there a way to convert the encoding after I loaded the file?

I tried it with the getBytes("iso-8859-2") java function but didn't get it to work.

Thanks for your help,

broenni

Yes this seems to work fine.
I modified it slightly so I have the exact same result as from loadStrings()

thanks.

Code:

String[] lines = new String[0];

void setup() {
}
void draw() {
}

void keyPressed() {
  lines = new String[0];
  
  String filename = "myFile.CSV";
  File f = new File(dataPath(filename));
  
  if(f.exists()) {
    //lines = loadStrings(filename);

    try {
      /* Open a stream to a File (in your data Folder) here */
      InputStream fi = createInput(filename);   
      /* get a reader with your encoding */
      InputStreamReader input = new InputStreamReader(fi, "iso-8859-1");
      BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(input);

      // read the file line by line
      String line;
      int counter = 0;
      while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
        lines = append(lines, line);
        counter++; 
      }
      reader.close();
    } 
    catch (IOException e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
  }
}