Name: gsC80088 Date: 03/16/99


when internationalizing applications, it is
suggested to use PropertyResourceBundles
in the tutorial, but after realizing that
property bundles wouldn't load properly with
languages other than english, i submitted a bug
report (4093632). after months of waiting, i
noticed that the bug was finally looked at and
the result??...

This is not a bug: xxx.properties files must be
encoded in ASCII.
Use the "\uXXXX" notation for non-ASCII Unicode
characters.

now, this isn't a very pleasant way to internationalize
applications, now is it??...
after translating labels, etc. into a foreign language
(often through a 3rd party), we now have to
take that translated file (which will more than
likely be in unicode) and convert it to this
"\uXXXX" notation??


PLEASE ALLOW THE USE OF UNICODE PROPERTY FILES!!!
(Review ID: 25397)
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