[brailleblaster] Re: Encoding of Translated Values
- From: "John J. Boyer" <johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 04:52:45 -0600
Thanks for the information. However, if a user wants to write a new
properties file for another language, where would she put it?
John
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 10:39:43AM +0000, Michael Whapples wrote:
> What lead you to that conclusion? Where did you look? A less than 5
> minute search tells me that unicode can be represented in .properties files.
>
> Firstly I found an indication of how unicode could be shown in
> .properties files by looking at the javadoc for java.util.Properties
> http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Properties.html.
> Probably the most useful things here are that .properties files are
> written using the ISO8859-1 encoding and any character which cannot be
> represented by this encoding can be inserted using the \u (eg. \u0009)
> unicode notation.
>
> May be a more readable article might be this wikipedia article, it gives
> much more detail on the .properties file format (eg. how you can have
> keys with spaces in the name, etc) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.properties.
>
> I also found this FAQ on java internationalisation which also seems to
> have the answer, may be it will have answers to other questions you may
> have http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/core/basic/intl/faq.jsp.
>
> As for the languages which use right to left writing, I don't know the
> answer off-hand, it may need looking at to see if SWT provides anything
> in this area as SWT will be doing the displaying.
>
> Michael Whapples
> On 07/12/10 04:16, John J. Boyer wrote:
> >There doesn't seem to be a satisfactory answer to encoding of
> >trranslations in properties files. So it looks to me as if we will have
> >to use subclasses of ListResourceBundle. The translations can always be
> >entered as Unicode values. Moreover, for languages suchh as Hebrew and
> >Arabic we will have to enter them "backwards".
> >
> >If we need a new subclass for a new lacality only that subclass will
> >have to be compiled and added to the jar file. With ant this is trivial.
> >
> >John
> >
>
>
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