Re: reading filenames from stdin - with umlauts?

From:
Dan Stromberg <dstromberglists@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:04:41 GMT
Message-ID:
<Jrcjk.14905$cW3.12899@nlpi064.nbdc.sbc.com>
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:25:01 +0000, Stefan Ram wrote:

Dan Stromberg <dstromberglists@gmail.com> writes:

The error looks like:


  We need to isolate the problem (as in ??SSCCE??).

  Try this:

echo "\0344" | java Main

  With

public class Main
{ public static void main( final java.lang.String[] args )
  throws java.lang.Throwable
  { final java.io.InputStreamReader inputStreamReader
    = new java.io.InputStreamReader( System.in, "ISO8859_1" ); final
    java.io.BufferedReader bufferedReader = new java.io.BufferedReader(
    inputStreamReader ); final java.lang.String string =
    bufferedReader.readLine(); java.lang.System.out.println(
    "\u00E4".equals( string.substring( 0, 1 ))); }}

  If prints ??false??, post the output of

echo "\0344" | od -h


It printed false, but this prints true:

printf '\344' | ./foo

(This was with the gcj implementation of java. I get the same result
using OpenJDK though).

  and also the hexadecimal codes of the String ??string?? at the end of
  the block above.

  Additional information:

  344 is the octal code of the letter LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH
  DIAERESIS in ISO 8859-1.

  "\u00E4" is a Java String containing only the letter LATIN SMALL
  LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS.

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