Daniel Mischler wrote:
| How can I handle file names and path names with Java (Cocoa) that
| contain umlauts?
What do you mean "handle"? What problem are you trying to solve, what are you doing now, what do you expect to happen, and what's actually happening?
| I need to work with all mounted volumes and it shouldn't choke on
| special characters.
What does it do when it "chokes"?
| So far I just get 'a?' instead 'รค' if I use it from e.g. new
| File("/Volumes").listFiles();.
That "a?" probably *is* the a-plus-umlaut, in UTF8. (You'd have to print out the hex values to be sure.) Unix, on which OS X is (ultimately) based, uses eight-bit-wide characters for its filenames. That couldn't be changed with the arrival of Unicode--too many programs assumed those eight-bit characters--so the file system uses UTF-8 (an eight-bit encoding of Unicode) instead.
If you absolutely *must* have it in Unicode, you'll have to convert the UTF-8 to Unicode. Whether you *will* need Unicode depends on what you're doing.
Glen Fisher
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