Using UTF-8 encoded property file with Report Designer

djatnieks

I have been following the localization process described in the BIRT Field Guide to Reporting book.

I have Resource files to hold my text strings and am able to change the locale value to get localized values, e.g. myreport_en.properties, myreport_fr.properties, etc.

However, I now have a property file that contains UTF-8 encoded characters and those characters are not being displayed properly when I view the report in the Report Designer.

I am using version 2.3.1 of the Report Designer.

I can open the UTF-8 encoded property file in Firefox (after changing the character encoding to UTF-8) and it displays okay, so I know the property file contains the proper values.

What do I need to do to get this to work in BIRT??

dstoian

the .properties files should not be encoed in utf8... please read carefully here:<br />
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<a class='bbc_url' href='http://wiki.eclipse.org/BIRT/FAQ/Internationalization'>BIRT/FAQ/Internationalization - Eclipsepedia</a><br />
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and here:<br />
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<a class='bbc_url' href='http://www.birt-exchange.org/wiki/BIRT:Internationalization/'>BIRT:Internationalization - BIRT Wiki - BIRT Exchange</a><br />
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These files must be ANSI encoded, with characters above 255 escaped as Unicode four-hex-character (uHHHH). I figured it is even safer to escape chars above 127.