Hi Ray!
The properties files should be in ascii encoding and the unicode characters
should be escaped with \u, for example "\u0161" for š character. JDK
comes with native2ascii tool that does the conversion.
I have seen an eclipse property editor plugin which saves properties files in
this format, but I myself use the following ant script to convert them.
<project name="Catalog" default="native" basedir=".">
<property name="native" value="${basedir}/src/main/native"/>
<property name="resources" value="${basedir}/src/main/resources"/>
<property name="webapp" value="${basedir}/src/main/webapp"/>
<target name="native" description="Translates resource files from
native encoding to ascii. Used by eclipse automated build">
<native2ascii encoding="windows-1257" src="${native}"
dest="${webapp}/WEB-INF" includes="**/${ant.project.name}_lv.properties"/>
<native2ascii encoding="windows-1257" src="${native}"
dest="${resources}" includes="**/*_lv.properties"
excludes="**/${ant.project.name}_lv.properties"/>
</target>
</project>
It can be configured to run automatically when a property file changes or run
manually, or run by a build script.
This converts tapestry main properties file and other native (latvian) files
under /src/main/native in the respective packages
You have to replace the encoding attribute with the encoding of your files, and
update suffix (from _lv to _es). If you have more than one language that needs
converting, you will have to get creative with that script.
Best Regards,
Imants
Quoting Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi there,
>
> I have a problem in parsing Spanish phrases with special chars. The
> original
> message defined is something like:
>
> DESCRIPTION=Descripción
>
> comes back as:
>
> Descripti?n
>
> from the Messages object. My file format is UTF-8 and my page has the
> appropriate header defined.
>
> Is there something completely obvious im missing here? Ive tried various
> workrounds, such as defining the unicode escape chars for the special
> chars
> which work for the web page. Problem then is in populating values in a
> dropdown menu where all the unicode escape chars come back as their
> literal
> string equivalents.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ray.
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