Java create URL to arabic filename

Question

How can I generate a url which every browser understands, even when I have to deal with arabic/chinese/... filenames?

e.g.

http://someserver.com/files/somehash/لوحة المفاتيح العربية.jpg

I also need to download these files and store them with their original name on the file system; do I have to rename it manually or does the downloadstream handle this for me (I have to connect with a ASCII string to the server so that he understands the filename)...

Thanks for any help!

possible duplicate of [Java URL encoding](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10786042/java-url-encoding) — Biffen, Sep 08 '14 at 06:42
best way is to encode the filename and write a handler to decode the filename, rest your handler can take care of. — Vinay Pandey, Sep 08 '14 at 06:45
are there any documented best practices for those handlers? I haven't worked with any yet.. — Niko, Sep 08 '14 at 06:54

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 08 '14 at 06:43

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filename should match both in your url and the file system unless you have a middleware service logic.

Encoding the URL using encode and appropriate encoding should help the browsers. Check URLEncoder.encode

answered Sep 08 '14 at 06:43

Juned Ahsan

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so you prefer REAL_FILENAME = STORED_FILENAME? am I not getting any problems with ftp-encoding restrictions? Isn't it better to store it with a "safe" name and save the real name in a DB? – Niko Sep 08 '14 at 06:55

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