international encoding (hebrew) and property task

[Antoine Levy-Lambert <le...@tiscali-dsl.de>]

Is it possible to create property files which ant can read which are not in the standard ISO 8859 character set, but in UTF 8, and contain for instance hebrew characters ?

If it is possible, how ?

I have just been working on sending email in Hebrew from a German Win2K computer with the mail task, using a patch supplied by a Russian ant user.

I managed well as soon as I typed my hebrew text in the build.xml, where I had explicitly written encoding=utf8.

When I tried instead to get my hebrew message from a property file, I got garbage, and I have a suspicion that the property task does not process properly (or cannot process) files containing UTF8. (with the syntax <property file="hebrew.properties"/> for instance, where "hebrew.properties" contains properties like line1=some hebrew sentence in UTF8

Let me know what you think.

Antoine

Re: international encoding (hebrew) and property task

[Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>]

On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Antoine Levy-Lambert <le...@tiscali-dsl.de>
wrote:

> When I tried instead to get my hebrew message from a property file,
> I got garbage, and I have a suspicion that the property task does
> not process properly (or cannot process) files containing
> UTF8.

<property> uses 

                FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(file);
                try {
                    props.load(fis);

which would need to be modified if you want a different encoding than
the platform's default.

If you want to dive in and patch it, may I suggest to add the encoding
attribute to <loadproperties> instead and leave the poor overloaded
<property> task alone 8-)

Stefan