On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 12:11:30AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> It seems that with Sun's JDK, some files are unaccessible if you run
> in a multi-byte locale (something which uses UTF-8, for example)
> because it's not possible to specify an UTF-16 string which is encoded
> to the name of the file you are interested, provided that the file has
> a name which is not a valid character sequence in the current locale.
> (This is not a big deal on UCS-2/UTF-16 platforms, but I'm not really
> sure what the designers thought when they tried to fit this model on
> UNIX.)
>
> Is there some GNU extension which can work around this issue? On a
> related note, is it possible to access the command line as an array of
> byte arrays?
There is no GNU extension (yet) that van work around this that I'm aware
of. For the other problem use the following untested pseudo-code.
You get the arguments as String[] args:
byte[][] data = new byte[args.length][];
for (int i = 0; i < args.length; i++) {
data[i][] = args[i].getBytes();
}
Cheers,
Michael
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