How to fix java when if refused to open a file with special character in filename?

Question

How to open a file, with a special character which Java refused to open?

At the beginning I guess it was a charset encoding problem as I read the filename wrong from

Answer 1

A possible workaround would be to use a system command to either rename or link to the file using only standard "friendly" chars. Seems hacky but I would think it would work.

Answer 2

Could it be related to File.exists() fails with unicode characters in name