My understanding is that if you want properties files (and resource
bundles based on them) to be encoded correctly, you need to use the
"native2ascii" command line tool (comes with the JDK) to encode them
properly.
Craig
On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi All Developer
>
> I would like to ask a question about Tomcat's JSP page development problems
>
> The problems is related to the following set of properties files and
> contentType
>
> I have set the page contentType as "TEXT/HTML;charset=UTF-8"
>
> and read a properties files which is written by Microsoft Word using "Save
> as" encoding text "utf-8"
>
> the coding that I use to read the resource bundle is as normal.
> rb = ResourceBundle.getBundle("test");
>
> str_text = rb.getString("username_b5");
>
> out.print(str_text + "<BR>");
>
> But the output is found to be unreadable result.
>
> after that my friend tell me to use
> out.println(new String(rb.getString("test").getBytes("ISO-8859-1"),
> "UTF-8"));
> the result is readable.
> I would like to ask can I change some JVM default encoding such that I can
> use the default method to read the properties files.
>
> Samuel
>
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