Java internationalisation?

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It seemed difficult to believe, but Java seems alarmingly Latin-1.

Internationalization (I18N) - ResourceBundle doesn’t read messages correctly from properties file in utf8

Quick and Dirty Hack for UTF-8 Support in ResourceBundle

Java UTF–8 international character support with Tomcat and Oracle

You can use native2ascii to convert files to ascii. This tool will expand characters to escaped character sequences. Personally, I think that is ridiculous. It makes the default Java utilities unusable for a majority of the world… Sure, I could write my own… but why don’t they just make the common libraries use UTF8?

Java Bug ID: 4508058 UTF-8 encoding does not recognize initial BOM

Problem outputting utf-8 from java

This makes me wonder, which programming language has the best support for internationalisation?

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This entry was written by James Littleview a random?, posted on June 27, 2008 at 1:52 pm, filed under development and tagged , , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

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  1. By Swing MVC | James @ NZfusion.com on June 27, 2008 at 2:22 pm

    […] We have been looking at this framework for an intranet site… it led to my realisation that Java really made things pretty difficult to display international character sets… but that was an earlier post. […]

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