Encoding issue on filename with Java 7 on OSX with jnlp/webstart

Question

I have this problem that has been dropped on me, and have been a couple of days of unsuccessful searches and workaround attempts.

I have now an internal java swing prog

Answer 1

It's a bug in the old-skool java File api, maybe just on a mac? Anyway, the new java.nio api works much better. I have several files containing unicode characters and content that failed to load using java.io.File and related classes. After converting all my code to use java.nio.Path EVERYTHING started working. And I replaced org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils (which has the same problem) with java.nio.Files...

...and be sure to read and write the content of file using an appropriate charset, for example:

Files.readAllLines(myPath, StandardCharsets.UTF_8)