Why does source operate with char?

Question

I'm new to Scala and would like to use scala.io.Source class. But I found out that it operates with Char s, but not Byte s. The thing that I'm confused about is that Char s are encoding/platform dependent. I mean we can have characters encoded in UTF-8 or "windows-1251".

windows-1251 is strictly 1-byte encoding... Is there a way to operate with raw bytes?

Answer 1

If you want to read Char as windows-1251 , you can do it like:

scala.io.Source.fromFile(myFile, "windows-1251")

set encoding for this read.