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URL decoding: UnsupportedEncodingException in Java

What I understand from the documentation is that UnsupportedEncodingException can only be thrown if I specify a wrong encoding as the second parameter to URLDecoder.decode(String, String) method. Is it so? I need to know cases where this exception can be thrown. Basically, I have this code segment in one of m…

Java FileReader encoding issue

I tried to use java.io.FileReader to read some text files and convert them into a string, but I found the result is wrongly encoded and not readable at all. Here’s my environment: Windows 2003, OS encoding: CP1252 Java 5.0 My files are UTF-8 encoded or CP1252 encoded, and some of them (UTF-8 encoded fil…