Java: Writing a Text File with a Code Page

This short piece of code demonstrates how to write a text file in Java and setting a code page. The PrinterWriter class contains a number of methods for outputting text to a file. The OutputStreamWriter class specifies the code page for the text file. The PrinterWriter class wraps this class. In turn, the OutputStreamWriter class wraps a FileOutputStream class which creates the handle to an actual file.

Download source for: WriteTextCodePage.java

   1:/** Simple Program to write a text file
   2:*/
   3:
   4:import java.io.*;
   5:
   6:public class WriteTextCodePage{
   7:    public static void main(String[] args){
   8:        try {
   9:            FileOutputStream outFile = new FileOutputStream(args[0]);
  10:            OutputStreamWriter outStream = new OutputStreamWriter(outFile,"UTF-8");
  11:            PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(outFile);
  12:            
  13:            // Also could be written as follows on one line
  14:            // Printwriter out = new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWrite(outFile));
  15:        
  16:            // Write text to file
  17:            out.println("This is line 1");
  18:            out.println("This is line 2");
  19:            out.print("This is line3 part 1, ");
  20:            out.println("this is line 3 part 2");
  21:            out.close();
  22:        } catch (IOException e){
  23:            e.printStackTrace();
  24:        }
  25:    }
  26:}