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javafilecharacter-encodingdecode

File path encoding

Can you help me to get the correct file path? I give in the arguments a link to a file with the name:

GovHK 香港政府一站通：Homepage (Residents).webloc

And instead of it I receive:

GovHK ???????:Homepage (Residents).webloc

So I can not get file, file.exists(); returns false

public class Test {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        if (args.length > 0) {
            File file = new File(args[0]);
            System.out.println("Exists: " + file.exists());
        }
    }
}

File was taken from MacOS to Windows.

You can see the original file here

How can I get the real file path to handle it? Thank you!

UPD

If I get list of files in the directory, file path is showing correctly and files exist. So the problem is on way cmd -> jar

Solution

  • Thanks to @MikitaBerazouski question, we found out that it is an issue of Windows console encoding.

    [UPDATE]

    Used JNI to get real command line arguments