Re: [babel-dev] Babel update site - is it working?

[Denis Roy <denis.roy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Agh, I believe the files are currently UTF-8.

I guess we need to convert the UTF-8 strings in the database back to 
escaped unicode when building the language packs.  I'll open a bug for this.

Thanks

Daniel McGowan wrote:
> This is Unicode/UTF-8 corruption.
>
> What encoding are the language .properties saved in in the jar's? They 
> should be in escaped Unicode.
>
> http://www-306.ibm.com/software/globalization/topics/dev_java/lesson1.jsp
> Keep in mind that property files must be written using Latin-1 and/or 
> Unicode escape sequence characters. native2ascii, which comes with 
> Java SDK, converts files which contain other character encodings into 
> the format above.
>
> http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Properties.html
> Characters that cannot be directly represented in this encoding [ISO 
> 8859-1]can be written using Unicode escapes 
> <http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/lexical.html#3.3> 
> ; only a single 'u' character is allowed in an escape sequence. The 
> native2ascii tool can be used to convert property files to and from 
> other character encodings.
>
> Attached is a sample .properties we use in one of our Eclipse RCP 
> applications.
>
> Regards,
>
> Daniel.
>
> Denis Roy wrote:
> > Olivier Thomann wrote:
> > > Add -nl fr_FR or -nl fr_CA on the Eclipse command line, not sure 
> > > which one is available on your machine.
> > >   
> > Both worked, thanks.  Should we be documenting this somewhere, or am 
> > I the only one who didn't know this?
> >
> > Also, I'm guessing I should be seeing funny characters like in the 
> > attached screenshot?
> >
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