Russian Messages.properties

[charles.salasoberlin.gmail.com]

Hi everyone,

I am having troubles getting russian internationalization to work on my site. I have a messages_ru.properties file with all the strings translated to russian and the file is saved in UTF8 format. However when I view the page, the strings do not appear as russian but as garbled text or a bunch of question marks. Can anyone give me some guidelines on how to properly set up russian language for a seam app? Thanks for any help.

[adamk]

What encoding did you set in your xhtml files?
What browser did you used and what encoding did they recognized?

[herberson]

Probaly you are using russian alphabetic specific characters on properties file, try converting those to unicode.

I had the same issue but in my case was brazilian portuguese so, I wrote a java swing application to do this job, you can download him from this link. 

[charles.salasoberlin.gmail.com]

The encoding set in my xhtml files is UTF-8. I tested on all modern browsers and still had the same problem. The pages recognized UTF-8. I use Richfaces 3.3.3 GA with Facelets. Yesterday, I read that facelets has an issue which makes it escape unicode chaaracters before displaying them on the page. Could this be the reason? I tried everything. I first had russian alphabetic characters in the properties file. That didn't work. Then I converted to unicode but the unicode just appears on the page as is! This sounds like the escaping problem I mentioned above. Please help.

Charles.

[herberson]

If I undertand right, the first line on your xhtml files is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

In my language, brazilian portuguese, with that line I ended with a similiar issue and my way to fix this is change (or add) the first line on my xhtml files like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

Herberson