Re: MessageResources file encoding

2005-08-03 Thread Konrad Billewicz
Thank you for your advices. Following them I decided to resign from changing encoding. Instead I have found an Eclipse plugin (Properties Editor which can be downloaded at http://eclipse-plugins.info) which allows easy edition of properties files. It works fine and solves my problem. Best reg

RE: MessageResources file encoding

2005-08-03 Thread Chatzinikos, Fotis, VF-GR Consultant
Hi, I had similar problems with Greek characters (ISO-8859-7). After loads of research I found out that to work the property file needs to be Unicode encoded (and in UTF8 preferably). For example the String 'Φώτης' to appear in the web application has to be encoded as \ux\ux and so on.

Re: MessageResources file encoding

2005-08-03 Thread Jason Lea
Hi Konrad, It isn't even UTF, it's an older Java Properties file format: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/Properties.html You need to use native2ascii with something like native2ascii -encoding ISO-8859-2 input.properties output.properties it turns the non-ascii characters int