How to parse a URI like this in Java

Question

I'm trying to parse the following URI : http://translate.google.com/#zh-CN|en|你

but got this error message :

java.net.URISyntaxException: Illegal character in fragment at index 34: http://translate.google.com/#zh-CN|en|你
        at java.net.URI$Parser.fail(URI.java:2809)
        at java.net.URI$Parser.checkChars(URI.java:2982)
        at java.net.URI$Parser.parse(URI.java:3028)

It's having problem with the "|" character, if I get rid of the "|", the last Chinese char is not causing any problem, what's the right way to handle this ?

My method look like this :

  public static void displayFileOrUrlInBrowser(String File_Or_Url)
  {
    try { Desktop.getDesktop().browse(new URI(File_Or_Url.replace(" ","%20").replace("^","%5E"))); }
    catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); }
  }

Thanks for the answers, but BalusC's solution seems to work only for an instance of the url, my method needs to work with any url I pass to it, how would it know where's the starting point to cut the url into two parts and only encode the second part ?

Answer 1

You should use java.net.URLEncoder to URL-encode the query with UTF-8. You don't necessarily need regex for this. You don't want to have a regex to cover all of those thousands Chinese glyphs, do you? ;)

String query = URLEncoder.encode("zh-CN|en|你", "UTF-8");
String url = "http://translate.google.com/#" + query;
Desktop.getDesktop().browse(new URI(url));