[jira] [Updated] (LOGCXX-325) Multibyte character support for PropertyResourceBundle

["Thorsten Schöning (JIRA)" <lo...@logging.apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOGCXX-325?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Thorsten Schöning updated LOGCXX-325:
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    Priority: Minor  (was: Trivial)

> Multibyte character support for PropertyResourceBundle
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>                 Key: LOGCXX-325
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOGCXX-325
>             Project: Log4cxx
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 0.10.0
>         Environment: Not relevant.
>            Reporter: Jordan Angold
>            Assignee: Curt Arnold
>            Priority: Minor
>   Original Estimate: 24h
>  Remaining Estimate: 24h
>
> PropertyResourceBundle uses Properties, which specifies that the file it loads from must be in ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1); this is similar to the Java API specification. However, the Java API also permits the use of Unicode escaping ( \u#### ) whereas log4cxx does not appear to.
> In order to have satisfactory i18n support, log4cxx must be able to read unicode characters, as Latin-1 is only applicable to a handful of mostly-Western languages. A simple fix for users who need this support is to edit properties.cpp, find the load() method and change CharsetDecoder::getISOLatinDecoder() to CharsetDecoder::getUTF8Decoder(); I have not run log4cxx's tests to verify this, but the output appears correct.
> A more comprehensive change is to either add a configuration option, perhaps --with-bundlechars={utf-8, latin-1, auto...} to change the type of decoder selected, or to overload ResourceBundle::getBundle() to give an extra option to choose the input format. The second provides the user with greater flexibility as they can have multiple log files encoded differently, but may require more effort.



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