[opencms-dev] Properties files and UTF-8 characters

[Alexander Kandzior]

Olli,

 

actually the German Umlauts _are_ part of ISO-8859-1 so it’s ok to use them “directly”. That applies for many other special chars in western European languages as well. 

 

It’s just the Euro sign € that is sourly missing from 8859-1, but I guess you British guys don’t care for that anyway :-) 

 

Best regards,

 

Alex.

 

 

 

From: opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org [mailto:opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org] On Behalf Of Olli Aro
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 4:57 PM
To: 'The OpenCms mailing list'
Subject: Re: [opencms-dev] Properties files and UTF-8 characters

 

Thanks Paul,

 

Yeah, I ended up doing something similar the last time around.

 

Just keep wondering how the workplace property files work fine? For example, surely there should be the same issue with the German translation of the workplace?

 

Olli

 

From: opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org [mailto:opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org] On Behalf Of Paul-Inge Flakstad
Sent: 29 January 2013 15:42
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Subject: [Bulk] Re: [opencms-dev] Properties files and UTF-8 characters

 

Hi Olli,

 

Can’t say if there have been improvements on this in OpenCms, but I faced the same issue some time ago, working on a site with content in Russian. 

 

My solution was: instead of the “normal” CmsJspActionElement.html#label(java.lang.String) method, I used this one:

 

public String labelUnicode(String key) {

        try {

            return new String(this.label(key).getBytes("ISO-8859-1"), "UTF-8");

        } catch (java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException e) {

            // Really shouldn’t occur

            return null;

        }

    }

 

(Above method is part of a convenience class extending CmsJspXmlContentBean.)

 

Not the best solution, but it’s simple and it works.

 

Cheers,

Paul

 

From: opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org [mailto:opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org] On Behalf Of Olli Aro
Sent: 29. januar 2013 16:27
To: opencms-dev at opencms.org
Subject: [opencms-dev] Properties files and UTF-8 characters

 

Hi all,

 

It has been a while since I last had to deploy OpenCms based on language relying on UTF-8.

 

I would like to use the property files as part of my templates, but it still looks as UTF-8 property files are still no no in Java.

 

Before I write my own version of org.opencms.i18n.CmsPropertyResourceBundle class (like I did last time), I was wondering if there was some other way to get around this?

 

I am just thinking maybe I am missing something, since the workplace localisation is also in property files and works fine eg. in German?

 

Anyone have any pointers on how to use UTF-8 based property file as part of your site templates?

 

Thanks,

 

Olli

 

 

 

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