Re: Question regarding UTF-8 and property files

2011-05-27 Thread Rob J
Ahhh, did some digging and figured it out! Apple OSX's java interpreter's default charset is MacRoman I modified bin/ant to add -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 as an argument for the java interpreter, and it works fine now: hitman@bigdog ~/t/t/apache-ant-1.8.2$ bin/ant foo2 Buildfile: /Users/hitman/t/t/ap

Re: Question regarding UTF-8 and property files

2011-05-27 Thread Rob J
> The ? implies to me that your shell might be trying to display the UTF-8 > properly, but can't, so it shows the question mark. > > Instead of looking at the file with cat: > - Does the file have one byte for that mark, (that would be the question > mark) or 3? - You should be able to count ho

RE: Question regarding UTF-8 and property files

2011-05-27 Thread Echlin, Robert
The ? implies to me that your shell might be trying to display the UTF-8 properly, but can't, so it shows the question mark. Instead of looking at the file with cat: - Does the file have one byte for that mark, (that would be the question mark) or 3? - You should be able to count how many bytes

Re: Question regarding UTF-8 and property files

2011-05-27 Thread Rob J
On Fri, 27 May 2011, Scot P. Floess wrote: > Works for me: > > > > > > > > > > Hmm. Yup. I actually just went to a linux system and ran the exact same example using the exact same ant version and it works fine over there. The linux box is using the Sun

Re: Question regarding UTF-8 and property files

2011-05-27 Thread Alexandre Priou
no work for you !!! sorry i d'ont want this shit sorry , it s clear ? On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Scot P. Floess wrote: > Works for me: > > > > > > > > > > > > > foo: > [echo] [Test ế] > > > > On Fri, 27 May 2011, Rob J wrote: > > This is on a Unix b

Re: Question regarding UTF-8 and property files

2011-05-27 Thread Scot P. Floess
Works for me: foo: [echo] [Test ế] On Fri, 27 May 2011, Rob J wrote: This is on a Unix box, there is no BOM in foo.properties. I just added the BOM to the file: hitman@bigdog ~/t$ file foo.properties foo.properties: UTF-8 Unicode (with BOM) t

Re: Question regarding UTF-8 and property files

2011-05-27 Thread Alexandre Priou
me too On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Rob J wrote: > On Fri, 27 May 2011, Alexandre Priou wrote: > > > no test it's the game > > Sorry, not following you there...? What do you mean? > > thanks, > rob > > - > To unsubscribe, e

Re: Question regarding UTF-8 and property files

2011-05-27 Thread Rob J
On Fri, 27 May 2011, Alexandre Priou wrote: > no test it's the game Sorry, not following you there...? What do you mean? thanks, rob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: us

Re: Question regarding UTF-8 and property files

2011-05-27 Thread Alexandre Priou
no test it's the game On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Rob J wrote: > On Fri, 27 May 2011, Scot P. Floess wrote: > > > Try ISO-8859-1 as your encoding... Someone I work with was > > attempting to use property files with a similar issue (but directly > > within Java). He used the ISO-8859-1 enc

Re: Question regarding UTF-8 and property files

2011-05-27 Thread Rob J
On Fri, 27 May 2011, Scot P. Floess wrote: > Try ISO-8859-1 as your encoding... Someone I work with was > attempting to use property files with a similar issue (but directly > within Java). He used the ISO-8859-1 encoding and it fixed his > problem... No dice. I tried changing both the encodin

Re: Question regarding UTF-8 and property files

2011-05-27 Thread Rob J
This is on a Unix box, there is no BOM in foo.properties. I just added the BOM to the file: hitman@bigdog ~/t$ file foo.properties foo.properties: UTF-8 Unicode (with BOM) text hitman@bigdog ~/t$ ant foo Buildfile: /Users/hitman/t/build.xml foo: BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 0 seconds hitman@bi

Re: Question regarding UTF-8 and property files

2011-05-27 Thread Scot P. Floess
Try ISO-8859-1 as your encoding... Someone I work with was attempting to use property files with a similar issue (but directly within Java). He used the ISO-8859-1 encoding and it fixed his problem... On Fri, 27 May 2011, Rob J wrote: So I'm having an issue with UTF-8 and property files.

RE: Question regarding UTF-8 and property files

2011-05-27 Thread Echlin, Robert
Hi Rob, Maybe you need to start the file with the Byte Order Mark? This is apparently more likely if you are on Windows. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Byte_order_mark Rob > -Original Message- > From: Rob J [mailto:r...@dcsportbikes.net] > Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 12:03 PM > To:

Question regarding UTF-8 and property files

2011-05-27 Thread Rob J
So I'm having an issue with UTF-8 and property files. Given the test build.xml file: and the file foo.properties: #foo.propert=Test ế foo.property=Test \u1EBF When I run ant (1.8.2) for this target and look in test.txt, I see: Test ? every time. It is not interpreting t