I do not think your file.encoding sys prop matters, see the Javadoc for the
Properties class.
Gary
On Tue, Mar 10, 2020, 20:22 Christopher <ctubb...@apache.org> wrote:
> That was my guess, but I don't see how this could happen since my JVM
> default encoding, my terminal, System.getProperty("file.encoding"),
> System.getProperty("input.encoding") and the BOM in the config file are all
> UTF-8. I'm using Java 11.
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 8:17 PM Carter Kozak <cko...@ckozak.net> wrote:
>
> > I wonder if the log4j2.properties file is being parsed as ISO-8859-1
> > rather than UTF-8, so we're not reading the cat properly?
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 10, 2020, at 20:04, Christopher wrote:
> > > In my log4j2.properties file, I used:
> > >
> > > appender.console.type = Console
> > > appender.console.name = STDERR
> > > appender.console.target = SYSTEM_ERR
> > > appender.console.layout.type = PatternLayout
> > > appender.console.layout.pattern = 🐈%style{%d{ISO8601}}{dim,cyan}
> > > %style{[}{red}%style{%-8c{2}}{dim,blue}%style{]}{red}
> > > %highlight{%-5p}%style{:}{red} %m%n
> > >
> > > I did not try to specify a charset at first, but my understanding is
> that
> > > the default is to use UTF-8, which should work, but it prints 'ð'
> instead
> > > of '🐈'.
> > > Strangely, even though my terminal is using UTF-8, log4j prints
> correctly
> > > when I add:
> > >
> > > appender.console.layout.charset = ISO-8859-1
> > >
> > > Setting this to 'UTF-8' explicitly does not work. I don't know if this
> > is a
> > > bug, or some charset confusion on my part (I try to stick to UTF-8
> > > everywhere, but perhaps I missed something). Perhaps the config file
> > itself
> > > is being read as ISO-8859-1, even though it contains UTF-8 characters
> > and I
> > > made sure to explicitly save it with a UTF-8 BOM.
> > >
> > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 5:58 PM Ralph Goers <
> ralph.go...@dslextreme.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Did you specify a charset on the layout that supports that character?
> > > >
> > > > Ralph
> > > >
> > > > > On Mar 10, 2020, at 1:57 PM, Christopher <ctubb...@apache.org>
> > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > I tried to put in a kitty (🐈) in my LayoutPattern, but it didn't
> > > > > work. It replaced it with some weird character. Is this is a known
> > > > > bug?
> > > > > Does PatternLayout not support wide characters?
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> > -ck
> >
>
