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John Goering
John Goering

Reputation: 39030

Runtime.getRuntime().exec() with a non-ASCII string in Windows?

Trying the following method to open an Arabic URL:

  String cmd = "cmd.exe /C start \"Open file\" \"http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/موسوعة\"";
  Runtime.getRuntime().exec( cmd );

Unfortunately, the URL being opened is http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/??????

Any thoughts on why this is or how I could prevent this?

Before you ask why I don't use java.awt.Desktop.getDesktop().open(), it's because of this Sun bug: https://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug?bug_id=6457572

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2248

Answers (1)

Bozho
Bozho

Reputation: 597164

If you want this particular example to work - i.e. open an URL with UTF-8 in it, try this:


String params = URLEncoder.encode("موسوعة", "utf-8");
String cmd = "cmd.exe /C start \"Open file\" \"http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/" + params + "\"";
Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd);

Upvotes: 4

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