[opencms-dev] Problems with Umlaute in workplace.properties files (OpenCms 7.5)

[Achim Westermann]

Hi Bernd & Christian,

also a tip regarding properties files that might be stored in OpenCms 
VFS and mapped as export points to the file system:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/Properties.html#load(java.io.InputStream)

uses ISO-8859-1 as the assumed encoding. It is possible (and should be 
done) to set the property "encoding" of those *.properties files in VFS 
to "ISO-8859-1". Then you are e.g. able to enter german Umlauts. If you 
click save, the reloaded file in the editor will then not show up with 
scrambled characters. In the hard case (when you need to use characters 
that are not available in that codepage) you still have to use the 
unicode representation of those characters mentioned by Christian.


Kind Regards,
Achim.

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Achim Westermann

Alkacon Software GmbH  - The OpenCms Experts
http://www.alkacon.com - http://www.opencms.org


Christian Steinert wrote:
>> Uh-oh, thanx a lot for reminding ... as I just migrated my whole system which
>> was ISO-8859-1 based this problem never occurred before :)
>> By the way ISO-8859-1 is 8 bit.
>>   
> Hmm - then the would be ISO Latin 1 rather than 7bit ascii; this would 
> explain why they never changed the encoding to regular utf-8.
>> What a nuisance ...
>>   
> indeed.
> 
> Kind regards
> Christian
> 
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