How can I open files containing accents in Java?

Question

(editing for clarification and adding some code)

Hello, We have a requirement to parse data sent from users all over the world. Our Linux systems have a de

Answer 1

Well I was strangled with this issue all the day! My previous (wrong) code was the same as you:

for(File f : dir.listFiles()) {
 String filename = f.getName(); // The filename here is wrong !
 FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream (filename);
}

and it does not work (I'm using Java 1.7 Oracle on CentOS 6, LANG and LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 for all users except zimbra => LANG and LC_CTYPE=C - which btw is certainly the cause of this issue but I can't change this without the risk that Zimbra stops working...)

So I decided to use the new classes of java.nio.file package (Files and Paths):

DirectoryStream paths = Files.newDirectoryStream(Paths.get(outputName));
for (Iterator iterator = paths.iterator(); iterator.hasNext();) {
  Path path = iterator.next();
  String filename = path.getFileName().toString(); // The filename here is correct
  ...
}

So if you are using Java 1.7, you should give a try to new classes into java.nio.file package : it saved my day!

Hope it helps