Re: reading filenames from stdin - with umlauts?

From:

ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

27 Jul 2008 23:25:01 GMT

Message-ID:

<umlaut-20080728011905@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>

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

  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.