Govind,
Maybe my posting confused two issues.... One of my issues had to do with
ResourceBundles. I hadn't been able to find any documentation in the
JavaDocs
which specified the encoding used for property resource bundles - it
appears,
from the info that Vyacheslav Pedak recently posted, that I didn't read it
well enough....
The second issue, however, was specific to JSP engines.... I was trying to
understand how the engines can determine the encoding used for storing the
JSPs.
In the case of JSPs, I think the it would becoming incredibly difficult to
use
if every non ISO-8859-1 character had to be unicode escaped.... Do JSP
engines
use a default encoding for reading in JSP pages in order to interpret and
compile
them into servlets?
-AMT
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Govind Seshadri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 10:23 PM
> To: Arun Thomas
> Cc: JSP Mail List
> Subject: Re: localization
>
>
> Arun,
>
> The JSP engine should not really care about the encoding of the
> information
> present
> within property resource bundles. The specific charset value can also be
> specified
> an additional resource, of course. For example, data for most of the non
> ISO-8859-1 compliant
> languages like Korean, Japanese, Chinese, etc. can be represented in
> UTF-8 format. You can obtain Unicode sequences for any Asian
> character from
> a
> number of sites...I like the following applet from Netscape which does a
> decent job:
> http://home.netscape.com/eng/intl/tests/unicodestrings.html
>
> Borrowing a bit from Jason's servlet :), here is a simple example that
> displays
> "Hello World" in Japanese.
>
> <%@ page import="java.util.*" %>
> <%
> response.setContentType("text/plain; charset=Shift_JIS");
> ResourceBundle bundle = ResourceBundle.getBundle("Nippon");
> String s = bundle.getString("msg");
> out.println(s);
> %>
>
> Nippon.properties can be specified as:
> msg=\u4eca\u65e5\u306f\u4e16\u754c
>
> Of course, your browser needs to support Japanese fonts. Since
> adding exotic
> font support may seem like 3-ring circus at times,
> I suggest you simply download the latest version of MSIE v5.x and try out
> the example...it comes with all the bells and whistles.
>
> cheerio,
>
> Govind Seshadri
> jGuru.com
>
>
> > Govind,
> >
> > I'm hoping you can help clarify a point about localization that
> I've been
> > able
> > to find little comment about.... In the last few lines of your
> JavaWorld
> > article,
> > you write:
> >
> > If you are using something other than the ISO-8859-1 character set, you
> > must communicate this to the browser using the contentType attribute of
> > the page tag, as:
> > <%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=charset_name" %>
> >
> > You follow on to explain the compliancy requirements of the browser.
> >
> > My question deals with the JSP engine (and ResourceBundles for that
> matter).
> > How do these objects know the encoding used to store the JSP Page or
> > Property file? In order to read in these items for parsing into JSP
> > Servlets/
> > ResourceBundles, some particular encoding must be used. I can't
> understand
> > how
> > the engine could possible determine the encoding to use for a particular
> > file
> > based on information stored within the file (the @page directive above).
> In
> > the case of ResourceBundles, as far as I can see, the getBundle method
> must
> > be
> > assuming a particular encoding for the Property files, as none of the
> > various
> > method signatures provide any means to specify the encoding to use.
> >
> > Any clarification would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks for a good article.
> > -AMT
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: A mailing list about Java Server Pages specification
> and reference
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Govind Seshadri
> > > Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 11:05 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: localization
> > >
> > >
> > > You may be interested in an article I'd written on JSP and i18n for
> > > JavaWorld:
> > > http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2000/jw-03-ssj-jsp.html
> > >
> > > Govind Seshadri
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: Kevin Duffey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 8:17 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: localization
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Just a note, the abit-use.com site has a language drop-down that
> shows
> > > > their
> > > > > site in I think 10 different languages. Pretty kewl looking,
> > > but you may
> > > > > want to email them somehow and ask how they achieved it.
> > > Maybe there is
> > > a
> > > > > free translation kit or something. :)
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > >-----Original Message-----
> > > > > >From: A mailing list about Java Server Pages specification and
> > > reference
> > > > > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Hui Deng
> > > > > >Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 10:22 AM
> > > > > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > > >Subject: localization
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >Hi,
> > > > > >I'm currently working on an i18n prototype and need
> > > > > >you guru input before I go too far.
> > > > > >The orignal web site totally has 700+ pages including
> > > > > >jsp and few html. For the primary consideration, we
> > > > > >now just want to work with localization of static
> > > > > >content in page. We want to achieve:
> > > > > > 1. based on user language preference, display the
> > > > > >pages in user's language.
> > > > > > 2. avoid to keep x copies of 700+ pages for
> > > > > >x languages, instead, only keep one copy, so that we
> > > > > >don't bother to change the UI.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >To do this, first come to my mind is to use database.
> > > > > >Separate the static content in page as blocks and
> > > > > >assign ids to blocks. Put these content blocks in
> > > > > >database. In jsp page, we have placehold for these
> > > > > >contents. Then for every request for that page(jsp),
> > > > > >queries the database and pulls out content blocks for
> > > > > >that page. Also use database, we can easily manage and
> > > > > >
> > > > > >coordinate(web based) the localization, like sending
> > > > > >email if any content block be change in page XX.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >For alternative I could imagine is use XML. Each page
> > > > > >has a corespond xml file. In jsp page, parser is
> > > > > >called to take xml file and fill in content.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >Is this the way to do the job, or is there any tool
> > > > > >to work with jsp for this purpose?
> > > > > >
> > > > > >Thanks in advance for any suggestion.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >Hui Deng
> > > > > >
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