Java Programming

Alright, here's what im trying to do.
Read chinese characters from an excel sheet, put it i a String variable, then write it to a .txt file. Here is what i have tried with no success:

//all the excel connect and other stuff up ehre

Try 1:
..
aword[.i.] = rs.getString(3);
...
Writer bw = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream("mytxt.txt"),"UTF-8"));



bw.write("aword[.i.]");
bw.close();
...
Outputs: ??????? to the file ... should be some chinese characters

Try 2:
..
aword[.i.] = new String(rs.getString(3).getBytes("UTF-16LE"), "UTF-8");
...
Writer bw = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream("mytxt.txt"),"UTF-8"));

bw.write("aword[.i.]");
bw.close();
...
Outputs: ??????? to the file ... should be some chinese characters


Try 3:
..
aword[.i.] = rs.getString(3);
...
DataOutputStream dos = new DataOutputStream(new FileOutputStream("mytxt.txt));

dos.writeUTF(aword[.i.]);
dos.close()
...
Outputs: ????? To the txt file

Try 4:
..
aword[.i.] = new String(rs.getString(3).getBytes("UTF-16LE"), "UTF-8");
...

DataOutputStream dos = new DataOutputStream(new FileOutputStream("mytxt.txt));

dos.writeUTF(aword[.i.]);
dos.close()
...
Outputs nothing to the text file.

For the sake of the program the string from the excel sheet must be stored an array.
Anyone have any ideas of what the problem is? I tried looking on all other related threads.
(periods in string array is to get rid of italics for the sake of this post)

Message was edited by:
rayhab