Bug 221370

Summary:

Language pack builder needs to convert UTF-8 to escaped unicode

Product:

[Technology] Babel

Reporter:

Denis Roy <denis.roy>

Component:

Server

Assignee:

Babel server inbox <babel.server-inbox>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

dmcgowan

Version:

unspecified

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Linux

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Screenshot of preferences, Russian and Arabic	none

Description Denis Roy

2008-03-04 13:23:48 EST

As per Daniel's message on babel-dev:

http://www-306.ibm.com/software/globalization/topics/dev_java/lesson1.jsp
Keep in mind that property files must be written using Latin-1 and/or Unicode escape sequence characters. native2ascii, which comes with Java SDK, converts files which contain other character encodings into the format above.

http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Properties.html
Characters that cannot be directly represented in this encoding [ISO 8859-1]can be written using Unicode escapes ; only a single 'u' character is allowed in an escape sequence. The native2ascii tool can be used to convert property files to and from other character encodings.

Comment 1 Denis Roy

2008-03-04 15:08:50 EST

I've committed a fix for this.  Looks like our jsons library can do this.  I'm generating a test update site now.

generate1.php > 1.12

Comment 2 Denis Roy

2008-03-04 15:33:12 EST

Created attachment 91565 [details]
Screenshot of preferences, Russian and Arabic

This looks much better.

I created a staging area update site for testing.  Not all the language packs work  as not all the files/strings are on the staging area, but Russian, Arabic and Spanish are known to work.

http://build.eclipse.org/technology/babel/test-updates/

This fix will be live in the next code deployment.

Comment 3 Denis Roy

2008-03-06 09:00:35 EST

Released > R_0_200803051327

Comment 4 Denis Roy

2008-04-08 13:30:54 EDT

Released > R_0_200804081317