> On Friday 11 February 2005 17:45, Shinobu Kawai > wrote: > > It's all Java stuff. Java stores data in memory > as Unicode, so > > everything going into Java must be converted into > Unicode. Currently, > > there is no way Java can tell whether a file is > ascii or Greek or > > Japanese or whatever. So, you have to Unicode > escape the files. > > native2ascii makes life a bit easier. ;) > > Ok this is true, and maybe we are getting a bit out > of topic but, why cant I > just save the file in UTF-8 format? Isn't that > unicode? :/ > > Also, while searching for a solution I came across > the load(InputStream) > method of java.util.Properties which has the value > of charset hardcoded to > "8859_1" which made me wonder...
See my webpage and about UnicodeFileResourceLoader extension. http://koti.mbnet.fi/akini/java/unicodereader/ My loader handles properly UTF-8 BOM marker, which you will get if use windows Notepad. Bom marker is a good thing, but current java readers cannot handle it properly (but do handle fine UTF-16 bom markers). Java default uses ISO-8859-1 as an encoding if one is not explicitly given. It is a source of various problems in internationalization issues. I always save all java .properties files as UTF-8 file and load them with java.io.StreamInputStream instance or my UnicodeInputStream/Reader utility classes. If you generate web pages, _always_ assign response.setContentType("text/html; charset=UTF-8") to make life easier at browser side. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page – Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
