Nitin -

Do you mean why not use the actual Arabic characters rather than the
escaped \uXXXX notation? I think it's because with the escaped
notation, you don't have to care what encoding is currently default
for the JVM, or in use by any particular stream; all locales will be
able to read it.

For example, you might want to try using the native characters with
the JVM whose default locale is "US" and see if it works.

- Keith


--- In i18n-prog@yahoogroups.com, "Nitin Jain" <nitinjain8766@...> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am working on a java project, which needs to incorporate
> Internationalisation and Localisation. It has been suggested that the
> locale specific ".properties" (errormessages_ar.properties) that
> contain UNICODE equivalent of the Arabic text in my case.
>
> My questing is why not use the Arabic text messages rather than their
> UNICODE equivalent in the "xyz_ar.properties." file? What problems will
> this cause?
>
> All suggestions will be highly appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
> Nitin
>