Read Japanese Character using Scanner

Question

Possible duplicate: How can I read Chinese characters correctly using Scanner in Java?

My input file name may have japanese characters and I am trying to read the fi

Answer 1

This Answer for Chinese

Every String is already (conceptually) a sequence of characters, including Chinese characters.. Encoding only comes into it when you need to convert it into a bytes, which you don't need to for your assignment. Just use the String's hashcode. In fact, when you create a HashMap, that's exactly what will happen behind the scene