If a properties file has a wrong unicode notation such as the typo \uu instead of \u, for example, in MyProperty.properties

mykey=\uu006c

ResourceBundle.getBundle("MyProperty") throws MissingResourceException which doesn't help in debugging. Let's say the properties file size is very big and each line has a long \u notated string. And only one has a typo out of several thousand chars. It is almost impossible to find this typo from the MissingResourceException message.

Exception message should be a malformed encode instead.

This unclear exception message is because the catch block of ResourceBundle.java(line#944) does nothing and just exit.

return new PropertyResourceBundle(stream);
} catch( Exception e ) {
}

If there is e.printStackTrace() in the catch it prints out the exact reason for failing.

bae-chul.kim@eng 2000-07-18