Andrew McIntyre wrote:
Also, I do have vague years-old memories of doing testing of
translated properties files and discovering that characters in the
upper half of the ISO-8859-1 character set, while read properly from
the properties file, were not displayed properly when output to the
console.
If the characters were read properly then there would be no difference
in memory between an unicode escape encoded character and a valid
upper-half ISO-8859-1 character. Sounds like an unrelated output
encoding problem.
Dan.