Passing UTF-8 characters as arguments while invoking shell script from java

Asked May 03 '17 at 15:53

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I need to invoke shell script from java and pass UTF-8 characters as arguments(Hebrew/arabic language characters).

But the characters are turned into ????? in shell script.

I am using: Runtime.getRuntime().exec() to invoke the shell script.

And -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8, without which the characters in Java itself turn into ????

edited May 03 '17 at 15:59

Edwin Dalorzo

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asked May 03 '17 at 15:53

Hitesh Bajaj

Can you provide your code and output which you are getting? – hagrawal7777 May 03 '17 at 15:58
Could it be that you're not passing to your shell process the environment variable `LANG=C.UTF-8`? – Edwin Dalorzo May 03 '17 at 15:58
can you please elaborate this: passing to your shell process the environment variable LANG=C.UTF-8 – Hitesh Bajaj May 03 '17 at 15:59
@HiteshBajaj I'm not certain that I'm in the right path to the solution, but you may want to read [this](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Runtime.html#exec-java.lang.String:A-java.lang.String:A-) and [this](http://stackoverflow.com/q/28477852/697630) – Edwin Dalorzo May 03 '17 at 16:02
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Show us the code, and make sure that your console accepts UTF-8. – Christoffer Hammarström May 03 '17 at 16:03
@ChristofferHammarström: How do I make sure my console accepts UTF-8 I am invoking shell script using `Runtime.getRuntime().exec("shellScript.sh","تحذير");` shellScript.sh: `echo $1` output: ????? – Hitesh Bajaj May 03 '17 at 16:19
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@HiteshBajaj If you can't trust your console to handle UTF-8, instead write to a file and open with an UTF-8 capable file viewer. – Christoffer Hammarström May 03 '17 at 16:48
@ChristofferHammarström Used file to write the param and pass the file name to the shell script. – Hitesh Bajaj May 03 '17 at 20:04
@HiteshBajaj That's not exactly what i meant. I meant more for debugging purposes. :) But if it solved your problem to satisfaction, that's great! :) – Christoffer Hammarström May 29 '17 at 14:39

Passing UTF-8 characters as arguments while invoking shell script from java

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