Annoying & encoding

[Foux]

Hi all,

I'm currently developping an i18n application. I experienced strange
behaviours with Latin 1 characters (especially French accented
characters) with resources and validation.

I defined the following resource in the resources.properties file:

  error.invalid.mask: le champ {0} contient des caractères non valides.

  
in the validation.xml file, I defined the following field:

  <form name="subscribeForm">
    ...
    <field property="username" depends="required,mask">
      <msg name="mask" key="error.invalid.mask"/>
      <arg0 key="subscribe.username.label"/>
      <var>
        <var-name>mask</var-name>
        <var-value>${usernameMask}</var-value>
      </var>
    </field>
    ...
  </form>


Everything is working fine, beside the fact the & in the resource
error.invalid.mask is "ampersanded" into &amp; as return from the
validation process. This is annoying as the result in the web page is

  le champ {...} contient des caract&egrave;res non valides.

instead of

  le champ {...} contient des caract�res non valides.

where the &egrave; is replaced by the according French character. Note that,

  <bean:message key="error.invalid.mask"/>

is not encoding the & into &amp; and displays the message correctly.

I'guess it's an "MS-like undocumented feature" ;-), therefore I'm not
really sure if this is a bug or a mistake of mine.

Did anyone experience similar behaviour? Bug? Mistake?

Cheers,
Foux



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