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Luke Gaskell
Luke Gaskell

Reputation: 175

Reading .properties files written in russian

I am trying to read in .properties files with many different languages, add new entries to them, sort, and print back to file. I have the encoding as UTF-8, and it works for all my current languages except Russian. When reading the file in I get all question marks from the Russian file. When it prints back out it has a lot of the correct text, but has random question marks here and there. Here is my code for reading in the file.

Properties translation = new Properties() {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    @Override
    public synchronized Enumeration<Object> keys() {
        return Collections.enumeration(new TreeSet<Object>(super.keySet()));
    }
}

byte[] readIn = Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get(filePath));
String replacer = new String(readIn).replace("\\","\\\\");
translation.load(new InputStreamReader(new ByteArrayInputStream(replacer.getBytes()),"UTF-8"));

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1773

Answers (2)

Amita
Amita

Reputation: 974

Sometimes changing the encoding to utf-8 gives rise to errors, such as some extra characters or does nothing. The link: How can i read a Russian file in Java? may help you.

Upvotes: 0

JB Nizet
JB Nizet

Reputation: 691645

new String(readIn) and replacer.getBytes() don't use UTF8. They use your platform default encoding. Pass StandardCharsets.UTF_8 as an additional argument to both calls.

BTW, transforming a STring to a byte array, to then transform back the bytes to characters and reading them is a waste of time and resources. Just do 

translation.load(new StringReader(replacer));

Upvotes: 2

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