Image download with arabic characters in filename (Arabic characters)

Question

In my application i have to download an image from url. But my url contains some arabic charsters in it.So i encoded to UTF-8 format and trying to download it,but it shows nullpointer warning,so image is not downloading:

my code:

String urlDecode=URLDecoder.decode(urlpath,"UTF-8");
            Log.i("urlDecode", urlDecode);
            url = new URL(urlDecode);..

//          url = new URL(URLDecoder.decode(urlpath,"UTF-8"));
            System.out.println("url="+url);
            Bitmap bmp ;
//          try
//          {
            String filename = urlpath.substring(urlpath.lastIndexOf("/") + 1,
                    urlpath.length());
            bmp = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(url.openConnection()
                    .getInputStream());

My URL is like this:

http://vvvv.com/book_images/398_مقاصد _2الشريعة.jpg

My logcat:

06-27 11:46:19.868: W/System.err(18859): java.lang.NullPointerException
06-27 11:46:19.868: W/System.err(18859):    at DownloadString.DownloadImageFromURL(DownloadString.java:209)
06-27 11:46:19.868: W/System.err(18859):    at DownloadString.DownloadStringMethod(DownloadString.java:114)
06-27 11:46:19.868: W/System.err(18859):    at ThumbnailView$GetTask.doInBackground(ThumbnailView.java:797)
06-27 11:46:19.868: W/System.err(18859):    at ThumbnailView$GetTask.doInBackground(ThumbnailView.java:1)
06-27 11:46:19.868: W/System.err(18859):    at android.os.AsyncTask$2.call(AsyncTask.java:287)
06-27 11:46:19.868: W/System.err(18859):    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:234)
06-27 11:46:19.868: W/System.err(18859):    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1080)
06-27 11:46:19.868: W/System.err(18859):    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:573)
06-27 11:46:19.868: W/System.err(18859):    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:856)

Please help me to solve this..Thanks in advance..

I can't access the URL either, the website you have in your question doesn't seem to be a valid one. — Mahmoud Hanafy, Jun 27 '13 at 06:23
Thanks Mahmoud Hossam ..I have modified the url..I cant give the valid url..I checked in my browser its there.. — Subburaj, Jun 27 '13 at 06:25

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 27 '13 at 11:37

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Use the following web encoding tool and encode the Arabic URL and then hardcode to the url in the program and try
http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/

answered Jun 27 '13 at 11:37

blganesh101

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Thanks blganesh101.. i will try and say. – Subburaj Jun 27 '13 at 11:38
I pasted my url and encode it and pasted that in my browser ,but the image is not there.. – Subburaj Jun 27 '13 at 11:42
You need to paste it in the URL and use it. btw to help you on this, i found another link where others are facing the same problem, may be you can have a look. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6519746/url-decode-in-java-6#6603584 – blganesh101 Jun 27 '13 at 11:55
My problem is that my url contains arabic letters,also i used "UTF-8" encoding as in my code in my above post..So what can i do now..The image size is 0.00kb.. – Subburaj Jun 27 '13 at 12:01

Image download with arabic characters in filename (Arabic characters)

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