[opencms-dev] Greek workplace translation

[Alexander Kandzior]

Vangelis,

Java property files are always to be encoded in ASCII. You must escape all
special characters in the properties file with a unicode \uXXXX code. 

Please see 
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Intl/ResourceBundl
es/

for more information on the subject.

Quote form this page:

...

You'll need to understand another caveat regarding property bundles; you
must create them in ASCII, or use Unicode escape codes to represent Unicode
characters. Since you don't compile a property file to byte codes, there is
no way to tell the Java1 Virtual Machine (JVM) which character set to use.
So you must explicitly stick with ASCII or use the escape sequences. You can
represent a Unicode character in any Java file using \uXXXX, where XXXX is
the hexidecimal representation of the character. If you don't know the
hexidecimal value for a character, just use the native2ascii tool provided
in the JDK. You can read more about the tool at 

http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.1/docs/tooldocs/win32/native2ascii.html.
This tool will convert a file written in your native encoding to one that
represents non-ASCII characters as Unicode escape sequences. A partial
listing of the %JDK_HOME%\lib\font.properties.ja file provides an example of
these escape sequences: 

...


Best Regards,
Alex.

Alexander Kandzior
Alkacon Software - The OpenCms Experts
http://www.alkacon.com




> -----Original Message-----
> From: opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org 
> [mailto:opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org] On Behalf Of 
> Vlachogiannis Evangelos
> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 12:13 AM
> To: 'opencms-dev at opencms.org'
> Subject: [opencms-dev] Greek workplace translation
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to translate the workplace to Hellenic (Greek). I 
> have downloaded the alkalon instructions module and followed 
> them but I have encoding problems. I have set up both tomcat 
> and opencms to ISO-8859-7. I edit the workplace_el.properties 
> with the opencms sourcecode edit save and publish it. What I 
> am getting on the workplace is strange characters. Any ideas please?
> 
> Vangelis
> _______________________________________________
> This mail is send to you from the opencms-dev mailing list
> To change your list options, or to unsubscribe from the list, 
> please visit http://mail.opencms.org/mailman/listinfo/opencms-dev
> 
>