Unable to read file with japanese character in name

[Krish baskar]

Hi
I am unable to read contents from a file with japanese characters,though it is encoded.

filename=new String(filename.getBytes("ISO-8859-1"));
File file = new File(filename);
String local = file.getCanonicalPath() ;
String input = new FileInputStream(local);

Below is the output :

java.io.FileNotFoundException: D:\backup\softwares\ああ.txt (The system cannot find the file specified [errno=2, syscall=CreateFileW])
        at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
        at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:106)
        at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:66)
        at Example.main(Example.java:168)

Could someone help me out ?

[Rob Spoor]

ISO-8859-1 is Latin-1, as used in Western Europe among others. It can't handle Japanese. Try the proper Japanese encoding.

Also, why are you converting filename like that?

[Krish baskar]

Hi
I actually tried with ShiftJIS which is corerct japanese encoding. But it doesnt work.

Also, why are you converting filename like that?

Since in my existing, "ISO-8859-1" has been used, I went with that.

System.out.println("3:" + new String(filename.getBytes("Shift_JIS")));
OUTPUT
3:D:/backup/softwares/????.txt

where as file name is "ああ.txt".
Any clues ?

[Amit Ghorpade]

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