Hi Jukka, All -
I have just switched the OSGeoLive docs site, and included the
Finnish tab of the docs. I had a moment where some files did not
display, but I changed the default character encoding, as linux does, to
UTF-8, and now it displays correctly. (we support french, hungarian and
other scripts, too)
No importance here at the JPP-devel list perhaps, but I did this only
yesterday, so I thought to mention it.
cheers from Berkeley, California --Brian M Hamlin / OSGeoLive
PSC / MAPLABS
On 11/9/21 12:57 PM, Rahkonen Jukka (MML) wrote:
Hi Ede,
I start to think that I am on a safe side with the Finnish language files. All the
special characters in the file are Unicode escaped like the translation "Päätä
piirtäminen" in string
com.vividsolutions.jump.workbench.ui.cursortool.MultiClickTool.finish-drawing=P\u00e4\u00e4t\u00e4
piirt\u00e4minen
If I understand right all the characters in the file are the just the same as
ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8. And .properties files seem to be plain text files without
any character set headers or magic strings so change into UTF-8 would not
really change anything.
It seems like the Finnish translation could be OK even without Unicode escapes because all
the few special characters we have (åäöÅÄÖ) belong to the ISO-8859-1 set
https://www.w3schools.com/charsets/ref_html_8859.asp like "small a, umlaut mark"
https://www.w3schools.com/charsets/tryit.asp?deci=228&ent=auml. But in that case change
from 8859-1 into UTF-8 would break the translations.
I was reading that Java 9 supports UTF-8 properties so I made some tests with
Unicode escapes, native 8859-1 characters, and UTF-8 characters.
Unicode escapes:
OK with Java 8
OK with Java 11
Native 8859-1:
OK with Java 8
Garbled with Java 11
UTF-8:
Garbled with Java 8
OK with Java 11
Thus I think that as long as we support Java 8 the properties files should use
Unicode escapes everywhere.
-Jukka-
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Aihe: Re: [JPP-Devel] How to edit properties files in GitHub right?
On 09.11.2021 18:49, Rahkonen Jukka (MML) wrote:
Hi,
hey Jukka,
I was about to add some missing translations into Finnish language file in
GitHub but I noticed this warning:
"We've detected the file encoding as ISO-8859-1. When you commit changes we will
transcode it to UTF-8."
neat of github webui to warn! i'm surprised, positively.
However, with Java properties files I think that should not be done because Java
"properties files should be encoded in ISO 8859-1 character encoding. Characters
that cannot be directly represented in this encoding can be written using Unicode
escapes" (from
https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/java.base/java/util/Properties.html).
correct
What is the right method to edit the language files and not to mess the right
character encoding? Should I edit the whole file outside GitHub and replace the
whole jump_fi.properties file? And if so, how to replace files in GitHub?
as the github webui fails, the only proper way is to use a git client, clone
the repo edit and push.
but actually the ISO9959-1 is a legacy and there are lot's of reasons to switch
the repo over to UTF-8 (especially the ease of use to international
contributers). maybe you wanna wait for that?
additionally, of course
1. you can download a snapshot containing a lang/ folder or download the file
from github 2. do the edits 3. post it here and me or Mike will commit it then.
hope that helped.. healthy regards ede
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