When I first read oleth's reply, I made the same mistake.

The 'applet' that oleg refers to is your applet.
I think oleg means they are copy/pasting the code from
the text area of your FileI/O *applet* into the
*application* source.

When I first read oleth's reply, I made the same mistake.

The 'applet' that oleth refers to is your applet.
I think oleth means they are copy/pasting the code from
the text area of your FileI/O *applet* into their
*application* source.

I dont use an applet in my code. I refered to the applet of the page
http://mindprod.com/applets/fileio.html which "generates" I/O code.

That's absolutely true... I might be making somewhere some kind of
stupid mistake, I can't find out.
I use the "US-ASCII", which I found in both the sun's documentation and
the page you provided.
I would like to thank you for all your effort to help!

Here's the code:

/**********************
write file
**********************/

import java.io.*;
//import java.nio.charset.*;

public class WriteFile_encoding2{

    public static void main ( String[] args) throws IOException
    {
        String filename = new String("textfile");
        char tempChar = 'a';
        int k;

        try
        {
            // O P E N
            FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream( filename  );
            OutputStreamWriter eosw = new OutputStreamWriter( fos,"US-ASCII" );

            PrintWriter prw = new PrintWriter( eosw, false /* auto flush on
println */ );

            // check to see what encoding is used
            System.out.println( eosw.getEncoding() );

            for(k=0; k<=255; k++)
            {
                tempChar = (char) k;

                System.out.println("("+ k +") " + tempChar);

                // W R I T E
                prw.write( k );
                prw.flush();

            }

            // C L O S E
            prw.close();
        }
        catch(FileNotFoundException e)
        {
            //file could not be opened
            System.out.println("Unable to open file: " + filename);
        }
        catch(IOException e)
        {
            // the file could not be read or closed
            System.out.println("Unable to read or close file: " + filename);
        }
    }
}

/**********************
write file
**********************/

import java.io.*;
import java.nio.charset.*;

public class ReadFile_encoding2 {

    public static void main ( String[] args) throws IOException
    {
        String filename = new String("textfile");

        try
        {
            // O P E N
            FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream( filename);
            InputStreamReader eisr = new InputStreamReader( fis,"US-ASCII" );

            System.out.println(eisr.getEncoding() );

            int aChar;
            char myChar='a';

            while( ( aChar=eisr .read() )!=-1 )
            {
                // R E A D
                myChar= (char) aChar;
                System.out.println( "(" + aChar + ") " + myChar);
            }

            // C L O S E
            eisr .close();
        }
        catch(FileNotFoundException e)
        {
            //file could not be opened
            System.out.println("Unable to open file: " + filename);
        }
        catch(IOException e)
        {
            // the file could not be read or closed
            System.out.println("Unable to read or close file: " + filename);
        }
    }
}