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).
I think it is both unicode.
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 "¨".
That's it. The OS seems to always store files with the accents
decomposed.
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