topic Re: alfresco share wrong utf-8 encoding in Alfresco Archive

alfresco share wrong utf-8 encoding

dga — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:50:23 GMT

Hello all,i hava a problem and i need your help.I want to see in my pages characthers like șțâîă overriding the common.properties and slingshot.properties, but i don't know how.just an example:- originalheader.logout.label=Logoutheader.logout.description=Logout- translatedheader.logout.label=Ieșire

Re: alfresco share wrong utf-8 encoding

iblanco — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:42:20 GMT

You are right, that's the right solution.

Java .properties files are supposed to contain ASCII only characters and all the rest must be encoded to their unicode equivalents. I think it might be more forgivin with ISO-8859-1 encoded files, but not others.

In fact I think the Alfresco build scripts preprocess all .properties files and encode all non ASCII characters for you, but obviously that only works at build time, not if you edit the .properties files later.

Re: alfresco share wrong utf-8 encoding

vassilisx — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:55:55 GMT

Is this the only way you have found to display non-latin characters? For Greek language, for example, it is impossible to just use UTF-8 codes for text. One would have to transform every single letter!

Re: alfresco share wrong utf-8 encoding

iblanco — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:40:20 GMT

Well AFAIK your best option is to write the .properties file in whatever codec you want, probably UTF8 in order to be able to use greek characters and then encode it using native2ascii tool (included in the JRE i think).

There is a "newer" way of specifying properties files by an XML format. There you can use UTF8 or probably any other codec as long as you declare it in the XML file. But Alfresco is not using this format for internationalization so I think you can not use it in this context.

Re: alfresco share wrong utf-8 encoding

mrogers — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:32:57 GMT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.properties

Properties files are always LATIN_1.

Re: alfresco share wrong utf-8 encoding

ipirat — Tue, 27 May 2014 05:49:55 GMT

I am using the ResourceBundle Editor Eclipse Plugin for years:

http://eclipse-rbe.sourceforge.net/screenshots.htm

In Eclipse Settings, you can turn on/off parameters to automatically convert \uXXX values to readable characters for display and convert them back to \uXXX codes when writing to files