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try {
  FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream("SomeFile");
  DataInputStream dis = new DataInputStream(fis);
  byte[] data = new byte[1024];
  dis.readFully(data);
  String encoding = "SomeEncoding"; // for example, "UTF-16LE"
  String result = new String(data, encoding);
} catch (IOException x) {
  // handle error
}

Exceptions

IDS13-EX0: An explicit character encoding may be omitted on the receiving side when the data was produced by a Java application that uses the same platform and default character encoding and the data is communicated over a secure communication channels (see MSC00-J. Use SSLSockets rather than Sockets for secure data exchange).

Risk Assessment

Failure to specify the character encoding while performing file or network I/O can result in corrupted data.

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