In my application I need to assign Chinese characters to a string to be diplayed on the screen. If I simply do this...
String chinese = "我是你的朋友";
It says it doesn't support it and I have to save everything in UTF-8 format. Will this mess my project up? I'm not sure what the best way to do this is.
Thank you
If you save all the files in UTF-8 format and also tell the Java compiler to use UTF-8 as the file encoding (refer to the documentation of your IDE or build tool), then it will work just fine.
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I have a problem in eclipse, i imported a project , maybe i changed the encoding to UTF-8 then i reset it back to default; but in the whole code where there is special characters like accents , they turned into unreadable symbols (as the screenshot show). is there any ways to reformat the code and get back the original code. Know that when i write myself accented letters it's shown as normal without problems
I am building an app that takes information from java and builds an excel spreadsheet. Some of the information contains international characters. I am having an issue when Russian characters, for example, are rendered correctly in Java, but when I send those characters to Excel, they are not rendered properly. I initially thought the issue was an encoding problem, but I am now thinking that the problem is simply not have the Russian language pack loaded on my Windows 7 machine.
I need to know if there is a way for a Java application to "force" Excel to show international characters.
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Check the file encoding you're using is characters don't show up. Java defaults to platform native encoding (Win-1252 for Windows) instead of UTF-8. You can explicitly set the writers to use UTF-8 or Cyrillic encoding.
I am currently working on a project with multiple languages we also have french, the only problem is that it displays weird characters, in stead of normal french,
Can some1 help me with this ( its in java )
thanks from beforehand
If you are using Resource bundles in the ".properties" format, then this issue can be resolved by escaping al the not standard characters with their respective Unicode notation.
.propertie resource bundles are always in ISO-8859-1 encoding, so most likely you problem comes from converting the ISO-8859-1 encoding to UTF-8
You can easily convert all these characters to escaped Unicode representation by using one of these tools: native2ascii or AnyEdit
using nonstandard characters in resource bundles
It has nothing to do with the font, but the encoding. I suggest you switch to UTF-8, a good standard for international characters.
Most likely this has nothing to do with fonts, and the real problem is an encoding issue.
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Make sure your code uses the correct encoding whenever it converts between bytes and strings. Avoid the methods/constructors/classes that use the platform default encoding.
Please use Character Encoding Filers at server side this will resolve your issue
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We recently got a localization file the contains Portuguese translations of all the string in our java app. The file they gave me was a .csv file and I use file maker to create .tab file which is what we need for our purposes. Unfortunately none of the accents seem to work. For example the string vocÍ in our localization file shows up as vocΩ inside the application. I tried switching the language settings to portuguese before creating compiling but I still get this problem, anyone have any ideas of what else I might need to try?
I think that you problem is related to the file encoding used.
Java has full unicode support so there shouldn't be any problems, unless the file you are reading (the one made with FileMaker) is encoded in something different than UTF8 (which is the default used by Java).
You can try saving the file in a different encoding or specifying which encoding to use when opening it from Java (see here). Many API classes support additional parameters to specify which charset to use when opening a file. Just take a look at the documentation..
I'm experimenting with internationalization by making a Hello World program that uses properties files + ResourceBundle to get different strings.
Specifically, I have a file "messages_en_US.properties" that stores "hello.world=Hello World!", which works fine of course.
I then have a file "messages_ja_JP.properties" which I've tried all sorts of things with, but it always appears as some type of garbled string when printed to the console or in Swing. The problem is obviously with the reading of the content into a Java string, as a Java string in Japanese typed directly into the source can print fine.
Things I've tried:
The .properties file in UTF-8 encoding with the Japanese string as-is for the value. Something I read indicates that Java expects a properties file to be in the native encoding of the system...? It didn't work either way.
The file in default encoding (ISO-8859-1) and the value stored as escaped Unicode created by the native2ascii program included with Java. Tried with a source file in various Japanese encodings... SHIFT-JIS, EUC-JP, ISO-2022-JP.
Edit:
I actually figured this out while I was typing this, but I figured I'd post it anyway and answer it in case it helps anyone.
I realized that native2ascii was assuming (surprise) that it was converting from my operating system's default encoding each time, and as such not producing the correct escaped Unicode string.
Running native2ascii with the "-encoding encoding_name" option where encoding_name was the name of the source file's encoding (SHIFT-JIS in this case) produced the correct result and everything works fine.
Ant also has a native2ascii task that runs native2ascii on a set of input files and sends output files wherever you want, so I was able to add a builder that does that in Eclipse so that my source folder has the strings in their original encoding for easy editing and building automatically puts converted files of the same name in the output folder.
As of JDK 1.6, Properties has a load() method that accepts a Reader. That means you can save all the property files as UTF-8 and read them all directly by passing an InputStreamReader to load(). I think that's the most elegant solution, but it requires your app to run on a Java 6 runtime.
Historically, load() only accepted an InputStream, and the stream was decoded as ISO-8859-1. Not the system default encoding, always ISO-8859-1. That's important, because it makes a certain hack possible. Say your property file is stored as UTF-8. After you retrieve a property, you can re-encode it as ISO-8859-1 and decode it again as UTF-8, like this:
String realProp = new String(prop.getBytes("ISO-8859-1"), "UTF-8");
It's ugly and fragile, but it does work. But I think the best solution, at least for the next few years, is the one you found: bulk-convert the files with native2ascii using a build tool like Ant.
An alternative way to handle the properties files is:
http://www.unipad.org/main/
This is an editor which can read/write files in \u unicode escape format, this is the format native2ascii creates.
It don't know how well it works with Japanese, I've used it for Hungarian.