The java properties file could only read those characters in unicode form. In Geronimo 2.2, to make it easy to edit those property file, we use a mave plugin to do the convertion in the building process.
2010/5/11 chi runhua <[email protected]> > Hi devs, > > I am about to update some Chinese translation of UI description for > branche/2.1, but noticed that the Chinese characters in some of .properties > files are encoded as Unicode, which makes the update kinda difficult. > > But in branch/2.2, we don't have the problem. > > Any idea why we have two sets of file encoding mechanism for non-en > characters? > > Thanks. > > For example. > [1]. > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/server/branches/2.1/plugins/console/plugin-portlets/src/main/resources/pluginportlets_zh.properties > [2]. > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/server/branches/2.2/plugins/console/plugin-portlets/src/main/resources/pluginportlets_zh.properties > > > Jeff > -- Ivan
