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Posted to log4j-dev@logging.apache.org by Thierry Sourbier <ml...@i18nGurus.com> on 2003/01/07 03:50:14 UTC

i18n & FileAppender...

Hello,

It looks like the FileAppender currently limits its ouput to the default
system file encoding. This is when you are trying to debug a program using
Japanese data on a US system, as all Japanese characters are reduced to
question marks [?] :(. This is an unecessary restriction.

Calling WriterAppender.setEncoding() method has no effect on the behavior of
the FileAppender since the OutputStreamWriter has already been created when
at construction time.

A temporary solution if I may suggest one would be to add one constructor to
the FileAppender that would take an extra encoding argument e.g:

public FileAppender(Layout layout, String filename, boolean append, boolean
bufferedIO,
	       int bufferSize, String encoding) throws IOException {
    this.layout = layout;
    this.setEncoding(encoding);
    this.setFile(filename, append, bufferedIO, bufferSize);
}

That would enable user to have log file in any encoding they chose to.


Cheers,

Thierry.

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RE: i18n & FileAppender...

Posted by Thierry Sourbier <ml...@i18nGurus.com>.
It sure does.

Thanks for the hint!

Thierry.

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Ceki Gulcu [mailto:ceki@qos.ch]
Envoye : mardi 7 janvier 2003 05:22
A : Log4J Developers List
Objet : Re: i18n & FileAppender...



Try

FileAppender fa = new FileAppender();
fa.setFile("xyz");
fa.setLayout(new PatternLayout());
fa.setEncoding(yourEncoding);
.. set other options
fa.activateOptions();

Hope this helps,

At 03:50 07.01.2003 +0100, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>It looks like the FileAppender currently limits its ouput to the default
>system file encoding. This is when you are trying to debug a program using
>Japanese data on a US system, as all Japanese characters are reduced to
>question marks [?] :(. This is an unecessary restriction.
>
>Calling WriterAppender.setEncoding() method has no effect on the behavior
of
>the FileAppender since the OutputStreamWriter has already been created when
>at construction time.
>
>A temporary solution if I may suggest one would be to add one constructor
to
>the FileAppender that would take an extra encoding argument e.g:
>
>public FileAppender(Layout layout, String filename, boolean append, boolean
>bufferedIO,
>                int bufferSize, String encoding) throws IOException {
>     this.layout = layout;
>     this.setEncoding(encoding);
>     this.setFile(filename, append, bufferedIO, bufferSize);
>}
>
>That would enable user to have log file in any encoding they chose to.
>
>
>Cheers,
>
>Thierry.

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Re: i18n & FileAppender...

Posted by Ceki Gülcü <ce...@qos.ch>.
Try

FileAppender fa = new FileAppender();
fa.setFile("xyz");
fa.setLayout(new PatternLayout());
fa.setEncoding(yourEncoding);
.. set other options
fa.activateOptions();

Hope this helps,

At 03:50 07.01.2003 +0100, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>It looks like the FileAppender currently limits its ouput to the default
>system file encoding. This is when you are trying to debug a program using
>Japanese data on a US system, as all Japanese characters are reduced to
>question marks [?] :(. This is an unecessary restriction.
>
>Calling WriterAppender.setEncoding() method has no effect on the behavior of
>the FileAppender since the OutputStreamWriter has already been created when
>at construction time.
>
>A temporary solution if I may suggest one would be to add one constructor to
>the FileAppender that would take an extra encoding argument e.g:
>
>public FileAppender(Layout layout, String filename, boolean append, boolean
>bufferedIO,
>                int bufferSize, String encoding) throws IOException {
>     this.layout = layout;
>     this.setEncoding(encoding);
>     this.setFile(filename, append, bufferedIO, bufferSize);
>}
>
>That would enable user to have log file in any encoding they chose to.
>
>
>Cheers,
>
>Thierry.

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