Tested with Merlin-beta:
ImageIcon with URL can not load images when the URL includes directories or files named in Japanese.

ImageIcon(URL location)
ImageIcon(URL location, String description)

This problem does not occur with Ladybird.


<Attached file: ImageIcon.tar>
ImageIcon/
ImageIcon/ImageIconTest.java
ImageIcon/Test.class
ImageIcon/Status.class
ImageIcon/ImageIconTest.class
ImageIcon/ImageIconTest_JP.java
ImageIcon/ImageIconTest_JP.class

<To reproduce>
1. Extract ImageIcon.tar
2. Lauch ImageIconTest_JP specifying the URL as an argument as below;
java ImageIconTest_JP http://javasoft.japan.sun.com/i18n-test/ImageIconTest_data/image/

*Four image gif files named in Japanese under the URL are expected to be displayed in ImageIconTest_JP, however, no images are displayed.
*If the URL includes Japanese directoy name, the same problem occurs.

If the URL or gif files do not includes Japanese characters,
image icons can be displayed properly.
<Steps to see this proper phenomenon>
1. Launch ImageIconTest specifying the same URL above;
java ImageIconTest http://javasoft.japan.sun.com/i18n-test/ImageIconTest_data/image/

* Four image files named in ASCII charactesr as listed below are expected to be displayed in ImageIconTest
  banana.gif
  mono.gif
  ninjin.gif
  radich.gif
*These files are displayed properly in two colums and four rows;
one colum for ImageIcon(URL location), the other for ImageIcon(URL location, String description)


--<NOTE>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Merlin has a problem in net/URLClassLoader.loadClass that it can't handle classes named in Japanese.-----> BugID 4400867

Is this ImageIcon problem related to 4400867's problem?

4400867's status is "integrated", though it is reproducible the latest build b55. It seems to be into b56.
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