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[Goofy]

hello all

As everyone, I still have encoding problems from time to time. Even if I can avoid most of them by experience, I am very ignorant about ANSI, UTF8 (to which I have a superstitious fervor) and whatsoever weird things
Sometimes I am proud to find the bug and to have spent hours for a "&" in a locale file..
Sometimes I am ashamed of having destroyed the ja-JP locale of a babelZillian friend, just with opening/closing a file with Pspad set for UTF8

So... Some of you seem to know much about that, some others are real hackers, some are dedicated to sorcery code ...

so please post your tricks and tips and knowledge here !

[Goofy]

I never save .properties files with "escaped Unicode", I always do it with UTF-8, and I haven't had any problem. Could someone explain me why?

I am unable to explain this other mystery. It must depend of the editor's configuration you are using.

I'm not sure, but maybe MIAO has to change the encoding to ANSI because the editor doesn't save UTF-8 correctly. So changing the encoding, he forces the editor to save with that encoding (look that just before saving the text file, character à is viewed like aprirà , what is the same as if you see an UTF-8 file with a non-UTF-8 editor.

I see, it is very likely. The strange point for me is : that forced encoding (that I must use for .properties or .js files) is useless for me with the dtd files / but it is necessary for Miao and tittoproject when using the same editor (pspad) as me. (I am just wondering what different settings we have, but of course I have not the smallest doubt about the efficiency of the ansi encoding as described above)