Java.util.Properties and Cp1250

Question

Is it possible to use java.util.Properties with encoding different from the standard?

Answer 1

Not if you

• java 6 or later works
• manages the code that loads the properties file, and can use Reader. See javadoc .

This is a rather annoying spec error. There are several workarounds, perhaps the easiest one is to automatically create a unicode compatible file with the appropriate code (cp1250, utf-8, whatever).

Java comes with a native2ascii transcoder to do this for you:

RFE :

• UTF-8 - 2004
• (Reader)/store (Writer) Properties - 1997

Answer 2

, , load() store(), Reader/Writer InputStreamReader/OutputStreamWriter .

, .

: Java 1.6 - , dsadinoff.

Answer 3

, ant script native2ascii:

<property name="javac.source.encoding" value="Cp1250"/>

<native2ascii src="${src.dir}" dest="${classes.dir}"
   encoding="${javac.source.encoding}"
   includes="**/*.properties"/>