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... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
