How to write a “UTF-16” encoding File over FTP in java

Question

I want to write a file directly in the FTP server using java and which needs to be in the UTF-16 format so that I can have support of latin,chinese,etc. characters .

Any suggestion will be of great help.

Thanks in advance.:))

Answer 1

Well, to start with it doesn't need to be UTF-16 to support all characters - I'd recommend UTF-8 instead of UTF-16.

However, basically you should transfer it as if it's a just a binary file (in binary mode in FTP). That way the bytes will be transferred with no textual interpretation so the two ends don't need to agree on an encoding at all.

Answer 2

To convert a String to or from UTF-8 and UTF-16 just use the String functions provided, there is a tutorial on them here:

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/i18n/text/string.html