encode œ correctly with UTF-8 - java

Question

I am having problems to write out the following string into a file correctly. Especially with the character "œ". The Problem appears on my local machine (Windows 7) and on the server (Linux)

String: "Cœurs d’artichauts grillées"

1. Does Work (œ gets displays correctly, while the apostrophe get translated into a question mark):

   Files.write(path, content.getBytes(StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1));
   

2. Does not work (result in file):

   Files.write(path, content.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
   

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According to the first answer of this question, UTF-8 should be able to encode the œ correctly as well. Has anyone have an idea what i am doing wrong?

Answer 1

Your second approach works

String content = "Cœurs d’artichauts grillées";
Path path = Paths.get("out.txt");
Files.write(path, content.getBytes(Charset.forName("UTF-8")));

Is producing an out.txt file with:

Cœurs d’artichauts grillées

Most likely the editor you are using is not displaying the content correctly. You might have to force your editor to use the UTF-8 encoding and a font that displays œ and other UTF-8 characters. Notepad++ or IntelliJ IDEA work out of the box.