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1. Do we need to check the encoding scheme when reading properties file?    stackoverflow.com

Today one of my testers came to me and said my program had failed her test. All she did was actually open up all my properties files and save them as ...

2. How to read properties file in Greek using Java    stackoverflow.com

I am trying to read from a properties file which have keys in English & values in greek.My code is like this:

public class I18NSample {

   static public void main(String[] ...

3. Accessing and encoding of properties files    stackoverflow.com

I'm used to work with properties files, for example from Ant. Where I can simply reference the property file doing something like that:

<property file="webapp_DO_NOT_COMMIT.properties"/>

4. file.encoding System Property    coderanch.com

In the jdk documentation, the "file.encoding" system property is mentioned. However, where can I find the related documentation about this property? I am not trying ask here what this property means. Instead, I just want to know where is its documentation. I come across this term many times did some search but just could not find out its documentation. Is it ...

5. unicode encoding vs property files    coderanch.com

We're i18n'ing an application, and the rubber is hitting the road. Properties files have the form file_'lang'_'region'.properties. This allows us to generate different text (for example) for a single property for British English, US English, and French (assuming French is my default locale.) My question involves Unicode. We have to store Unicode in a database, but there are times where we'd ...

6. folder and property file encoding    forums.oracle.com

Thanks guys. I am using mac os and the escape characters did not work. But may be I typed smthing wrong. Anyway the problem can be ignored at the moment. I've also googled the Properties class and they too mention that the properties file should be generated rather than directly typed. I still dont get it since I've thought that the ...

7. Character encoding and Property files    forums.oracle.com

Thanks for your help No, I don't know the encoding. How can I find out? Just an update, though I'm still trying some stuff. I tried to do a native2ascii ant task on the file (ISO-8859-1) as suggested in the Properties javadoc. As expected, it converted the accented characters to \uXXXX format. However, the output is still the same