In case anyone is interested I've found the problem -- don't use WebLogic 6
if you want Japanese to appear correctly.
it works fine with TomCat 3.2.1
Tim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Dawson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 2:47 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: i18n: SJIS and MessageFormat
>
>
> I'm using the i18n bundle (ok, I originated it) but I'm
> having a problem I
> hope someone else may have a clue about.
>
> The properties file I'm using for Japanese is encoded in
> Shift-JIS, and all
> the japanese characters look great when they display on my
> test "echo all
> key/value pairs" jsp page.
>
> However, a few of the keys cause MessageFormat to explode with an
> IllegalArgumentException related to "unmatched braces". I've
> looked in the
> properties file and indeed, a few unmatched braces are in
> there -- but only
> as a accidental occurence for the first or second byte of the two-byte
> encoding of shift-JIS.
>
> So, I read a little further and see that I'm "supposed" to be
> using the
> native2ascii tool. I put this into place, and yup, my
> properties file has a
> bunch of unicode in it now - and no unmatched braces - but
> the web page that
> uses that properties file now comes out as complete jibberish.
>
> Where do I go from here? It appears that the either there's a
> bug in the jdk
> or the docs are bad - or I'm completely missing something.
> Any ideas which
> it might be? (I'm hoping its something I'm doing wrong)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim
>
