Hello,

I realise that I should have made the question more precise; however
your interpretation is correct. Thank you for the response.

Nitin

--- In i18n-prog@yahoogroups.com, "eflarup" <eflarup@...> wrote:
>
> --- 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
> >
> I am not absolutely sure what the question is, but if you are asking
> whether you can use an Arabic properties file encoded in a legacy
> encoding, then the answer is NO. See the Properties class
> specification here:
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/Properties.html
>
> "When saving properties to a stream or loading them from a stream,
the
> ISO 8859-1 character encoding is used. For characters that cannot be
> directly represented in this encoding, Unicode escapes are used"
>
> Hence the need to represent anything NOT in 8859-1 as Unicode escape
> sequences.
>
> And in any case, using anything other than Unicode on a Java project
> makes absolutely no sense.
>