Question

Can someone help with a String Character question ? Any ideas how to open a browser with kyrillic charaters from a java programm ?

In my JAVA Program I have a String with kyrillic characters. It is an URL, which I like to use to open a browser with ‘ProcessBuilder’. The browser opens but in the url no kyrillic characters appears. Only ???????????.

Any ideas how to open a browser with kyrillic charaters from a java programm ?

regards

            String url = "https://www.google.ch/search?q=" + sKyrillic + "&hl=de&client=firefox-a&hs=hzU&rl......";
        try {
            new ProcessBuilder("rundll32", "url.dll,FileProtocolHandler", url).start();
        } catch (IOException ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }

Answer 1

Use URLEncoder to encode the value as application/x-www-form-urlencoded. For example:

String cyrillic_letter_i = "\u0418";
String encoded = URLEncoder.encode(cyrillic_letter_i, "UTF-8");
String google = "https://www.google.ch/search?q="
              + encoded
              + "&hl=de&client=firefox-a&hs=hzU&rl......";
URI uri = URI.create(google);
Desktop.getDesktop().browse(uri);