Readers deal with character data - while streams do not. Which is to say that encoding (which is interpreting bytes) is not applicable to streams.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Antony Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <user@struts.apache.org> Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 4:11 PM Subject: Re: Use UTF-8 encoded proerties file > On 6/27/05, Paul Moody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This looks like the same problem discussed in the > > "native2ascii" thread. I will copy in my input below, > > you can search on the mailing list site for the > > complete list of messages for this thread: > > > > ********** > > > > Re: native2ascii > > > > Paul Moody > > Fri, 24 Jun 2005 02:43:30 -0700 > > > > Below is my understanding of the solution. It is a bit > > annoying that property files can not be UTF-8 encoded > > but that seems to be the case. Anyway, here is what I > > have done and it seems to work... > > > > - you should store your Turkish strings in a text > > file with UTF-8 format (you can open the file in > > notepad and when saving choose the UTF-8 format). > > > > - you run the native2ascii to convert the UTF-8 > > strings into the required format with the strange > > looking things like \ufffd (or whatever). Don't worry, > > this is what is needed for the property files used by > > struts. > > > > - your JSPs should have a directive telling your > > browser that they are in UTF-8 format. Near the top of > > every JSP we have "<%@ page > > contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" > > pageEncoding="UTF-8" language="java" %>" > > > > Hopefully this should work. Good luck. > > > > ********** > > > > Thanks for the reply. I dont want to use native2ascii tool. I want to > read properties file in Arabic so that it is easy to edit. When I > looked at API for java.io.InputStreamReader, there is an option to > pass the encoding but I cant find a similar mechanism with subclasses > of InputStream. > > -- > rgds > Antony Paul > http://www.geocities.com/antonypaul24/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
