On Oct 19, 2007, at 3:40 AM, BruceSpring wrote:
Can log4j log special characters? For instance the German umlaut
characters?
Umlaut characters are vowels with the two dots above them.
Yes. FileAppender's and the like will by default use the system
default encoding which may or may not support a particular
character. If you are having problems with getting the expected
characters into the output, then explicitly specify an encoding. For
example, "UTF-16" and "UTF-8" can represent all unicode characters
while "ISO-8859-1" can only represent the first 256 unicode
characters (which includes all needed for the Western European
languages). If you see mangled characters when you view one of 8-bit
files ("UTF-8" or "ISO-8859-1"), it is likely due a mismatch between
the files encoding and the encoding assumed by your editor). You
could avoid that problem by specifying the "UTF-16" encoding which
would not be ambiguous, but would double the file size.
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