Read and write file with windows-1252

I'm trying to write a file containing some German characters to disk and read it using Windows-1252 encoding. I don't understand why, but my output is like this:

<title>Wï¿½hrend und im Anschluss an die Exkursion stehen Ihnen die Ansprechpartner fï¿½r O-Tï¿½ne</title>

<p>Die Themen im ï¿½berblick</p>

Any thoughts? Here is my code. You'll need spring-core and commons-io to run it.

private static void write(String fileName, Charset charset) throws IOException {
    String html = "<html xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\">" +
                  "<head>" +
                  "<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=windows-1252\">" +
                  "<title>Während und im Anschluss an die Exkursion stehen Ihnen die Ansprechpartner für O-Töne</title>" +
                  "</head>" +
                  "<body>" +
                  "<p>Die Themen im Überblick</p>" +
                  "</body>" +
                  "</html>";

    byte[] bytes = html.getBytes(charset);
    FileOutputStream outputStream = new FileOutputStream(fileName);
    OutputStreamWriter writer = new OutputStreamWriter(outputStream, charset);
    IOUtils.write(bytes, writer);
    writer.close();
    outputStream.close();
}

private static void read(String file, Charset windowsCharset) throws IOException {
    ClassPathResource pathResource = new ClassPathResource(file);
    String string = IOUtils.toString(pathResource.getInputStream(), windowsCharset);
    System.out.println(string);
}

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    Charset windowsCharset = Charset.forName("windows-1252");
    String file = "test.txt";
    write(file, windowsCharset);
    read(file, windowsCharset);
}

Solution

Your write method is wrong. You are using a writer to write bytes. A writer should be used for writing characters or strings.

You already encoded the string into bytes with the line

byte[] bytes = html.getBytes(charset);

These bytes can simply be written into an output stream:

IOUtils.write(bytes, outputStream);

This makes the writer unnecessary (remove it) and you will now get the correct output.