Classes derived from Reader and Writer take locale information when converting between Unicode and other character systems. : Stream « File « SCJP

1. SCJP
2. File
3. Stream

import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;

public class MainClass {
  public static void main(String[] argv) {
    try {
      FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("sometext.txt");
      OutputStreamWriter osw = new OutputStreamWriter(fos, "ISO8859-8");
      // various write operations go here
      osw.close();
    } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException ee) {
      System.out.println("Encoding ISO8859-8 not supported");
    } catch (IOException ie) {
      System.out.println(ie);
    }

  }
}