Re: file.isFile() returns false on special-character files

From:

"Oliver Wong" <owong@castortech.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 20:58:34 GMT

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"Ren? Schade" <schade.dk@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1161969457.489560.207150@f16g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...

I have two similar files created by the same system - same permissions
and located in the same folder. The only differende between the two
files is the filename. The first file has the filename "test", here
file.isFile() returns true. The second file has the name "test?" (I
don't know if you can see the last character in the filename, but it is
a character used in the danish language and thus UTF-8 character), here
file.isFile() returns false.

On Windows isFile() returns true on both files.

    Try specifying the name in your Java code as:

file = new File("test\u00E6");

Or whatever the unicode for the character is.

    If that fails, try testing file.exists() to see if Java can see the file
at all.

    If that fails, try posting an SSCCE
(http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/SSCCE) here so that we can spot any
other mistakes that might pop up (I don't expect the SSCCE to be much longer
than 10 lines).

    If that fails, post a bug to Sun.

    - Oliver