I have a Server, which hosts many files (e.g. also files, where the filenames contain special chars like "Ü" and "թ")
now I am facing a big problem, because I can't create the correct URLs, because I have to encode the special chars in a form the browser understands (e.g. %XX):
- www..../.../SPRÜCHE.txt --> needs to encode to "SPR%DCCHE.txt" to be found (otherwise 404)
- www..../.../SPRCHEթ.txt --> needs to encode to "SPRCHE%D5%A9.txt" to be found (otherwise 404)
As you see, the first one needs one %XX fragment for the "special char", while the second one needs two (%XX%XX) of them.
currently I am encoding the links with this function, but while it works with one file, the other doesn't work (dependin on the encoding I choose)
public static String encodeURIComponent(String filename) {
String result;
try {
// result = URLEncoder.encode(filename, "CP1252") //works only for SPRÜCHE
result = URLEncoder.encode(filename, "UTF-8") // works only for SPRCHEթ
.replaceAll("\\+", "%20").replaceAll("\\%21", "!")
.replaceAll("\\%27", "'").replaceAll("\\%28", "(")
.replaceAll("\\%29", ")").replaceAll("\\%7E", "~");
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
result = filename;
}
return result;
}
Is there a all-in-one url-safe encoding functions in the java world?
It is very important for me to solve this problem, so I ask you guys for help pls (it is used only for direct http-accessable file-links - no websites or other stuff).
THANK YOU
PS: the DB is utf8_general_ci, and the filenames which are (correcly displayed SPRCHEթ and SPRÜCHE in the DB) are also used as filenames (the file is uploaded from C:...\SPRCHEթ.txt etc.) The FTP-Viewer displays the uploaded files as: SPRÜCHE.txt and SPRCHEÕ©.txt (which could be a hint?) I am asking myself, why SPRÜCHE.txt works with CP1252 while SPRCHEթ.txt uses UTF-8?