Opening a file succeeds in Linux but fails in Windows

Question

Hi,
I have written an addon to OO Writer. It works properly with GNU-Linux (Ubuntu 9.04, JAVA 6)
I tried it under Windows 7 RC (I have no other Windows OS available)
I have a problem opening a file.
Here is the code I use
class Dictionary {
   ArrayList brutEntry = new ArrayList();
   ArrayList entryList = new ArrayList();
   DicEntry temp = null;
   public boolean enamdictEnabled;
   public boolean edictEnabled;
    * @param dicFileName A String representing the name of the edict  file which contains the dictionary entries
    * Each entry correspond to a line of the file
    * The dictionary must be EUC-JP coded.
    * @exception exceptions No exceptions thrown
   Dictionary(String dicFileName, String signature) {
      File f=new File(dicFileName);
         WarningHandler.displayMessage("I did; File f=new File(dicFileName); with "+dicFileName+" as a file name"+
                 "\nthe reselt is: "+f.toString()+" with f.toString()");
      BufferedReader i = null;
      try {
      i = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(f), "EUC-JP"));//dicFileName
         String str1 = null;
         while ((str1 = i.readLine()) != null) {
            // System.out.println(signature+"making a new entry"+Integer.toHexString(index));
            temp = new DicEntry(str1);
            temp.entrySignature = signature;
            entryList.add(temp);
      } catch (IOException ex) {
         System.out.println("Error message: "+ex.getMessage());
         Logger.getLogger(Dictionary.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
         WarningHandler.displayMessage("There was a problem opening or reading the " + dicFileName +
                 " dictionary file. Please check that your file and filepath are correct and" +
                 "that your dictionary file is EUC-JP encoded");
      } finally {
         try {
            i.close();
         } catch (IOException ex) {
            Logger.getLogger(Dictionary.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
  At first I used
     i = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(dicFileName), "EUC-JP"));//dicFileNamewithout the intermediate File creation but the result is the same, under Linux it works and under Windows it fails opening the file.
From my WarningHandler.displaymessage method I can see taht the file name is correctly (at least I guess) as it is:
/home/jaaf/jilt/theFileName with Linux
c:\Users\jaaf\jilt\thefileName with Windows
For information the file theFileName is EUC-JP encoded and contains Japanese Characters
Thank you for help
Edited by: meaulnes on Jul 8, 2009 5:19 AM
Complementary information after investigation
I split the line
i = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(f), "EUC-JP"));//dicFileName
in 3.
It seems that FileInputStream and InputStreamReader pass without problem.
But the line
i=new BufferedReader(isr); where isr is the InputStreamReader makes the program crash (Even the catch is not treated).
The message I get is:
Run Time Error
prog C:\ProgramFiles\OPenOffice.org3\program\soffice.bin
The application has requested the RunTime to terminate it in an unusual way.
please contact application support....
Edited by: meaulnes on Jul 8, 2009 5:31 AM

Answer 1

Hi,
Thank You for help;
I used stack trace
It seems that the error comes from the encoding.
Here is the trace:
java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException: EUC-JP*
+     at sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder.forInputStreamReader(Unknown Source)+
+     at java.io.InputStreamReader.<init>(Unknown Source)+javascript:void(0);
+     at com.zoraldia.openoffice.Dictionary.<init>(Dictionary.java:71)+
+     at com.zoraldia.openoffice.Jilt.createDictionaryDialog(Jilt.java:2477)+
+     at com.zoraldia.openoffice.Jilt.dispatch(Jilt.java:1948)+
Jul 8, 2009 4:23:32 PM com.zoraldia.openoffice.Dictionary <init>*
SEVERE: null*
java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException: EUC-JP*
+     at sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder.forInputStreamReader(Unknown Source)+
+     at java.io.InputStreamReader.<init>(Unknown Source)+
+     at com.zoraldia.openoffice.Dictionary.<init>(Dictionary.java:71)+
+     at com.zoraldia.openoffice.Jilt.createDictionaryDialog(Jilt.java:2477)+
+     at com.zoraldia.openoffice.Jilt.dispatch(Jilt.java:1948)+
I don't understand why on Linux it works but not on Windows