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Re: RE: character encoding

From: <glassfish_at_javadesktop.org>
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 21:01:45 PDT

I have found out all my previous problems now, thank you all for your assitance with this...
During the time we have worked so solve our problem with UTF-8 charset we have found new problem with this? I don't know if this is the right forum to put this up, if not please let us know where to go with this?

I have prepared both Eclipse (JSP Files) and GlassFish to run all my files in charset UTF-8. Then i got my resource bundle files(property files) to use UTF-8 encoding. Everything looks fine in my text editor. Then when i upload these pages every character retrieved from my resource bundles look garbled. This is because Java loads property files using ISO 8859-1 character encoding. This is a problem from Sun i have read on the internet!
[b]Note:[/b] that in JDK 1.6, you can use PropertyResourceBundle constructor to take a Reader which uses UTF-8 encoding.

please have a look at these links for more info:

http://www.kai-mai.com/node/128

http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/PropertyResourceBundle.html
[b]Note:[/b] PropertyResourceBundle can be constructed either from an InputStream or a Reader, which represents a property file. Constructing a PropertyResourceBundle instance from an InputStream requires that the input stream be encoded in ISO-8859-1. In that case, characters that cannot be represented in ISO-8859-1 encoding must be represented by Unicode Escapes, whereas the other constructor which takes a Reader does not have that limitation.

What i have read and understand is that the real solution to the problem is: Get the fmt lib to use a Reader instead of an InputStream. Alternativly if it works get a ResourceBundle instead of creating one that is wrong all the time? I have to create my own ResourceBundle instead of using my own fmt lib wich i cannot trust in a way any more. Is this right or am i comletly wrong?

My WebTexts files, en, sv and ry are my resource property bundles. To be able to read them i will use resource property bundle reader. Fmt lib gives me this but it seems that it inciates this in an InputStream (wich is looked to iso-8859-1) instead of a reader who can read UTF-8 without no problem. So can i get my fmt lib to change this or not, anybody have an idea about this???
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