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Special characters in log4j? German umlaut?
Can log4j log special characters? For instance the German umlaut characters?
Umlaut characters are vowels with the two dots above them.
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Re: Special characters in log4j? German umlaut?
Posted by Curt Arnold <ca...@apache.org>.
On Oct 19, 2007, at 3:40 AM, BruceSpring wrote:
>
> Can log4j log special characters? For instance the German umlaut
> characters?
> Umlaut characters are vowels with the two dots above them.
>
Yes. FileAppender's and the like will by default use the system
default encoding which may or may not support a particular
character. If you are having problems with getting the expected
characters into the output, then explicitly specify an encoding. For
example, "UTF-16" and "UTF-8" can represent all unicode characters
while "ISO-8859-1" can only represent the first 256 unicode
characters (which includes all needed for the Western European
languages). If you see mangled characters when you view one of 8-bit
files ("UTF-8" or "ISO-8859-1"), it is likely due a mismatch between
the files encoding and the encoding assumed by your editor). You
could avoid that problem by specifying the "UTF-16" encoding which
would not be ambiguous, but would double the file size.
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