IllegalArgumentException: Bad escape for Chinese characters in
FileObject path #168.
diff --git a/commons-vfs2/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/vfs2/FileObject.java b/commons-vfs2/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/vfs2/FileObject.java
index fce79ac..1f5e2d2 100644
--- a/commons-vfs2/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/vfs2/FileObject.java
+++ b/commons-vfs2/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/vfs2/FileObject.java
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@
      * @since 2.7.0
      */
     default URI getURI() {
-        return URI.create(getName().getURI());
+        return URI.create(URI.create(getName().getURI()).toASCIIString());
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/commons-vfs2/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/vfs2/FileObjectEscapeChartInPathTest.java b/commons-vfs2/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/vfs2/FileObjectEscapeChartInPathTest.java
index 8419dcc..66ab4b3 100644
--- a/commons-vfs2/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/vfs2/FileObjectEscapeChartInPathTest.java
+++ b/commons-vfs2/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/vfs2/FileObjectEscapeChartInPathTest.java
@@ -34,10 +34,8 @@
 import org.apache.commons.lang3.SystemUtils;
 import org.apache.commons.lang3.function.FailableFunction;
 import org.apache.commons.vfs2.impl.StandardFileSystemManager;
-import org.junit.Ignore;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
-@Ignore
 public class FileObjectEscapeChartInPathTest {
 
     private static final String REL_PATH_GREAT = "src/test/resources/test-data/好.txt";
diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index cac0154..56c4001 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -56,6 +56,9 @@
       <action type="fix" dev="ggregory" due-to="Boris Petrov, Gary Gregory, Max Kellermann">
         Fix NPE when closing a stream from a different thread #167. See also #166.
       </action>
+      <action type="fix" dev="ggregory" issue="VFS-798" due-to="XenoAmess, Gary Gregory">
+        IllegalArgumentException: Bad escape for Chinese characters in FileObject path #168.
+      </action>
       <!-- UPDATES  -->
       <action type="update" dev="ggregory" due-to="Arturo Bernal">
         Replace construction of FileInputStream and FileOutputStream objects with Files NIO APIs. #164.