It sure does. Thanks for the hint!
Thierry. -----Message d'origine----- De : Ceki Gulcu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoye : mardi 7 janvier 2003 05:22 A : Log4J Developers List Objet : Re: i18n & FileAppender... Try FileAppender fa = new FileAppender(); fa.setFile("xyz"); fa.setLayout(new PatternLayout()); fa.setEncoding(yourEncoding); .. set other options fa.activateOptions(); Hope this helps, At 03:50 07.01.2003 +0100, you wrote: >Hello, > >It looks like the FileAppender currently limits its ouput to the default >system file encoding. This is when you are trying to debug a program using >Japanese data on a US system, as all Japanese characters are reduced to >question marks [?] :(. This is an unecessary restriction. > >Calling WriterAppender.setEncoding() method has no effect on the behavior of >the FileAppender since the OutputStreamWriter has already been created when >at construction time. > >A temporary solution if I may suggest one would be to add one constructor to >the FileAppender that would take an extra encoding argument e.g: > >public FileAppender(Layout layout, String filename, boolean append, boolean >bufferedIO, > int bufferSize, String encoding) throws IOException { > this.layout = layout; > this.setEncoding(encoding); > this.setFile(filename, append, bufferedIO, bufferSize); >} > >That would enable user to have log file in any encoding they chose to. > > >Cheers, > >Thierry. -- Ceki -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
