Can't read UTF-8 filenames when launched as an Upstart service

Question

My Java program reads the contents of a directory recursively. This is a sample tree (note the non-ASCII characters):

./sviluppo
./sviluppo/ciaò
./sviluppo/ciaò/         


        

Answer 1

Adding this to /etc/init.d/script fixed this issue for me (I copied it from /etc/init.d/tomcat7):

# Make sure script is started with system locale
if [ -r /etc/default/locale ]; then
    . /etc/default/locale
    export LANG
fi

Contents of /etc/default/locale on my machine:

LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LANG=en_US.UTF-8