JDK-6478837 : (rb) ResourceBundle capability to read properties files in non ISO 8859-1 encoding
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Component: core-libs
  • Sub-Component: java.util:i18n
  • Affected Version: 5.0,6
  • Priority: P4
  • Status: Resolved
  • Resolution: Duplicate
  • OS: generic,windows_xp
  • CPU: generic,x86
  • Submitted: 2006-10-05
  • Updated: 2015-05-14
  • Resolved: 2014-02-03
Related Reports
Duplicate :  
JDK-6506167 - Adding ResourceBundle Support for Internationalization
Duplicate :  
JDK-8027607 - (rb) Provide UTF-8 based properties resource bundles
Description
Currently, properties files for the ResourceBundle need to be encoded in ISO 8859-1.  If the developers want to include texts that cannot be represented in ISO 8859-1, such as Japanese, they must use the unicode escape form (\uXXXX) for those texts.  It is doable with some tools to convert non ISO 8859-1 texts into those unicode escape sequence, such as 'native2ascii' tool, but that is very annoying and error prone to the non-tech type translators.

Some easier way to create properties files without the unicode escape is desirable.
Comments
dup of JDK-8027607
03-02-2014