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| Summary: | I18N - Problem with Japanese characters in output window | ||
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| Product: | projects | Reporter: | rovf <rovf> |
| Component: | Ant | Assignee: | Jesse Glick <jglick> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
| Severity: | blocker | CC: | jf4jbug, kfrank, mpetras |
| Priority: | P2 | Keywords: | I18N, RELNOTE |
| Version: | 6.x | ||
| Hardware: | Macintosh | ||
| OS: | Mac OS X | ||
| Issue Type: | DEFECT | Exception Reporter: | |
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Example program to show the error
Screenshot of program execution, shows that question marks are printed instead of Japanese characters |
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Description
rovf
2008-03-17 17:13:56 UTC
Created attachment 58506 [details]
Example program to show the error
Created attachment 58507 [details]
Screenshot of program execution, shows that question marks are printed instead of Japanese characters
see also 130117 filed on j2se project since was seen in doing in j2se project but am thinking this is not limited to j2se project though as mentioned in that issue, some multibyte appears ok in output window. ken.frank@sun.com The String arrives to output window already with default character encoding. Reassigning to ant for evaluation. Works fine on Ubuntu (provided that you configure the project with UTF-8 encoding, or use Unicode escape sequences in the source). Generally speaking, sending non-ASCII characters to standard output streams is highly dependent on your operating system; it is outside of NetBeans' control. If you want it to work, Linux is your best bet, and generally you will want your system to be configured to use UTF-8 encoding universally. since this was filed on mac specifically, should it be closed just because it works on linux ? Am assuming its valid for users to do what is described in issue on mac. ken.frank@sun.com That's why it's WONTFIX, not WORKSFORME. yes, understand its marked as wontfix; am asking for technical reasons why it won't or can't be fixed for mac. that is, is it a known mac limitation or issue or mac jdk one vs something in netbeans ? I think thats a fair kind of request when issue is marked as wontfix. ken.frank@sun.com The Java runtime in the user app translates characters to bytes when writing to a stream such as System.out, and correspondingly translates bytes to characters when reading from the (misleadingly named) Process.getInputStream in NB (or actually the Ant class which handles I/O for <java>). If in the first case the OS defines a platform encoding which cannot represent some characters, it replaces them with '?'. Mac OS X, from what I recall (I have no access to a Mac to verify), uses some funny encoding which is incapable of representing full Unicode; ditto Windows and Solaris; whereas all modern Linux distributions use UTF-8 throughout and so have no such problem. Similar considerations apply to filenames and other OS-visible strings: a Linux machine using an ext3 filesystem (normally interpreted as using UTF-8) can trivially name a file with any Unicode characters, but on other OSs this will not work in many cases, depending on implementation details of the JRE, and the particulars of the OS installation (e.g. Japanese Windows vs. American Windows). *** Issue 130317 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. *** thanks for the explanation; I've marked with relnote keyword so can be decided if it needs a relnote or not later in the cycle. ken.frank@sun.com |