Java Can't Open a File with Surrogate Unicode Values in the Filename?

Question

I\'m dealing with code that does various IO operations with files, and I want to make it able to deal with international filenames. I\'m working on a Mac with Java 1.5, and

Answer 1

If your environment's default locale does not include those characters you cannot open the file.

See: File.exists() fails with unicode characters in name

Edit: Alright.. What you need is to change the system locale. Whatever OS you are using.

Edit:

See: How can I open files containing accents in Java?

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