toURI method of File transform space character into %20

Question

toURI method of File transform space character into %20

On windows XP with Java 6

public static void main(String[] args) {

    File f = new File("C:\\My dir\\test.txt");
    URI uri = f.toURI();

    System.out.println(f.getAbsolutePath());
    System.out.println(uri);
}

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C:\My dir\test.txt file:/C:/My%20dir/test.txt

Answer 1

This is because URLs may not contains Space characters, as specified by RFC2396!

Answer 2

In fact, it is normal to have an encoding of space. to recreate the file from the URI, we just need to use the approriate constructor