I don't know what it will do to the line breaks, but you could maybe run a reverse native2ascii on the output file to "unescape" it.
JEC -- Jeffrey E. Care ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) WebSphere v7 Release Engineer WebSphere Build Tooling Lead (Project Mantis) Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/29/2005 04:43:04 PM: > Rebhan, Gilbert wrote: > > addition > > > > if i use = > > > > <echoproperties prefix="bla" destfile="temp.txt" format="xml"/> > > > > all works fine with linefeeds and umlauts, > > but i need it as "normal" propertyfile > > > > Ant uses the java APIs to export a "normal" property file, meaning one > that is legal according to the java properties spec. The escaping and > line breaks are part of that legality. I dont see any obvious way to > change that behaviour. > > -steve > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >