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Re: Problem with umlauts in file names

Thomas Singer wrote:

 new File("/dir/testäöü.txt").createNewFile();

The umlauts map to following bytes: ä=0xE4, ö=0xF6, ü=0xFC.

Now I read the directory content with

 String[] fileNames = new File("/dir").list();

The curious thing is, that now the file name looks similar, but has a different byte representation: ä=0x61 0x308, ö=0x6F 0x308, ü=0x75 0x308. 

I'm no expert here, but it surely has to do with the encoding used.

Either it is a matter of macroman versus Unicode (the later probably with UTF-16 encoding, though I'm not sure there).

Or it is a matter of accent encoding: does it represent ä as "ä" or as "a" + "¨"? Given that a is 0x61, I take a bet that 0x308 represents "¨".

Perhaps both issues apply here.

Again, I'm not a encoding expert at all, but I know this has been discussed a lot on the list. Perhaps someone knows by head what you're supposed to get back.

Regards,
Freek
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