Re: Charset mixed up in Dnd / File List / URI

From:

"Oliver Wong" <owong@castortech.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:50:34 GMT

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"mtp" <mtp@srs.invalid> wrote in message
news:ecce3r$5j2$1@s1.news.oleane.net...

Hello,

i work on linux/gnome (jdk1.4.2_10 to compile, jdk 1.5.0_07 to run), and
when i drag and drop a file whose name is ("donn??es.xls") on my java
application i accept the Drop with DataFlavor:

java.awt.datatransfer.DataFlavor[mimetype=application/x-java-serialized-object;representationclass=java.lang.String]

the drop data is "file:///home/user/.../donn%E9es.xls\r\n"

I drop the "\r\n", and i try to decode the %xx :

URI uri = new URI(filename);
String decodedPath = uri.getPath();

but the decoded path is: "/home/user/.../donn???es.xls"

So i guess it's a Charset problem but what can i do to solve it?

In short:
- "ls" and gnome explorer shows "donn??es.xls"
- the drop data is "donn%E9es.xls"
- the decoded path is "donn???es.xls"

Does anyone know how to solve this?

In your "incorrect" decoded path, what's the unicode value of the
incorrect character? E9 is indeed the correct unicode value for the
"lowercase latin e with acute accent":
http://www.eki.ee/letter/chardata.cgi?ucode=00E9

- Oliver