Accented Characters Displayed Wrongly

[anand phulwani]

Dear Ranchers,
Hope everyone is doing good.

I am facing problem with the following code, which is converting the accented n(ñ) to accented y(ý),automatically

final String CurrLanguage="En";
final String StartsWithPID="385";
File MiscDir=new File("..//..//..//home//~~~~~//public_html//Final//Download//Misc//");
FilenameFilter Filter = new FilenameFilter(){public boolean accept(File MiscDir, String name){return name.startsWith(StartsWithPID+"_"+CurrLanguage);}};
String FilteredFiles[]=MiscDir.list(Filter);
out.write(FilteredFiles[0]);

is returning '385_En_DVD IM Espaýol.doc' instead of '385_En_DVD IM Español.doc' which is the file present.
i have tried to add

<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" %>

into the beginning of code,but this returns a rectangle box (unprintable character) against the character ñ.

Please advice,

[Wouter Oet]

The problem occurs even with less code.

File file = new File("385_En_DVD IM Español.doc");   
System.out.print(file); 

But the problem is probably in your console. Because on my Win 7 cmd.exe it outputs '385_En_DVD IM Espa±ol.doc' but in netbeans it outputs '385_En_DVD IM Español.doc'.

[anand phulwani]

Dear Wouter,

I am executing this code as a JSP page.So i do not have a console over here.

I think it has to do something with the charset, but i don't know what it is.

More help is really appreciated.

[Rob Spoor]

Spanish falls into the ISO-8859-1 charset. The well-known ISO-8859-15 is an extension to that.

[anand phulwani]

Dear Rob,

I think this is the default charset which was being used so when i inserted the following code the accented n(ñ) changes to accented y(ý).

<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" %>

but this code runs perfectly fine in the above iso-8859-1 charset

File file = new File("385_En_DVD IM Español.doc");      
out.write(file.toString());

and when i used the following code

<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=iso-8859-15" %>

the accented n(ñ) changes to ?.

Really in a bizarre situation.

[anand phulwani]

Dear Ranchers,

I have realized the problem is same with the following characters too.
"á", "é", "í".

All of these characters are changing to accented y(ý).

Dont know how to proceed further.
Require help.

[Rob Spoor]

It's definitely an encoding issue, but as specifying the charset does not work I'm not able to help you out.

Maybe someone in our JSP forum can help you; I'm moving this thread there.

[anand phulwani]

Dear ranchers,

Tried setting the file.encoding to

<%= System.setProperty("file.encoding", "ISO8859-1") %>

and

<%= System.setProperty("file.encoding", "UTF-8") %>

but still the problem is not solved.