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Launching a URL with multibyte characters problem [message #452276]

Wed, 16 March 2005 17:36

Mike Boyersmith

Messages: 143
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Question:

What is the proper way to construct a file: protocol URL with multibyte
characters as part of the path to the file? (its file: because it points
to a file on the local system and the path may have folders with
multibyte characters).

Problem Description:

So I try to launch a browser using
org.eclipse.swt.program.Program.launch(urlStr);
where urlstr is constructed as "file:////root/???/mypage.html"

On Linux if I pass file:////root/???/mypage.html where ??? are extended
characters from a language like chinese or german, the browser fails to
load the file and gives a manged error message (the URL is mangled
badly). something like "file:// /root/????/ mypage.html". Owch.... where
??? are other extended characters, and the slashes and spaces are
screwed up.

so I have tried doing my own encoding using URLEncoder but have ran into
a whole other set of issues.

anyone ever see this problem, any solutions to this?

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Re: Launching a URL with multibyte characters problem [message #452285 is a reply to message #452276]

Wed, 16 March 2005 22:06

Mike Boyersmith

Messages: 143
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Mike Boyersmith wrote:
> Question:
>
> What is the proper way to construct a file: protocol URL with multibyte
> characters as part of the path to the file? (its file: because it points
> to a file on the local system and the path may have folders with
> multibyte characters).
>
> Problem Description:
>
> So I try to launch a browser using
> org.eclipse.swt.program.Program.launch(urlStr);
> where urlstr is constructed as "file:////root/???/mypage.html"
>
> On Linux if I pass file:////root/???/mypage.html where ??? are extended
> characters from a language like chinese or german, the browser fails to
> load the file and gives a manged error message (the URL is mangled
> badly). something like "file:// /root/????/ mypage.html". Owch.... where
> ??? are other extended characters, and the slashes and spaces are
> screwed up.
>
> so I have tried doing my own encoding using URLEncoder but have ran into
> a whole other set of issues.
>
> anyone ever see this problem, any solutions to this?

follow up to self, I found this problem is documented as a bug in
bugzilla see defect 263570

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