DatabaseTable resource bundles - character sets

Hi,
I'm considering moving our current properties-file based resource bundles to databaseTable resource bundles. In future, we intend to upgrade to multi-language. However our database character set is currently US7ASCII. Am I right in thinking that we will not be able to use non-US characters unless we upgrade our NLS_CHARACTERSET first? If so, the impact might be less if we stay with properties files.
thanks,
Mike

Hi Mike,
An oracle database also has a NCHAR_CHARACTERSET which probably is utf16. (look it up: select * from nls_database_parameters)
If so you could alter the jheadstart table that contains the resources (JHS_TRANSLATIONS I believe is was).
Alter the text column from varchar to nvarchar.
Probably works...didn't test it though...
Groeten,
HJH

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DatabaseTable resource bundles - performance

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Are there any known performance issues with databaseTable resource bundles vs "normal" properties-based bundles? Or to put it another way, is there any benefit to be gained from using properties-based bundles instead of databaseTable?
We have had performance issues in the past because of the way we were using properties files, so we'd like to take the right approach from the start this time.
I understand that the only difference is when they are loaded into the cache. I suppose the performance hit would be for the first ADF page to reference a property?
thanks,
Michael

Mchael,
That's correct. Only difference is the way the entries are loaded the first time. AFter that, caching is the same as for property files.
Steven Davelaar,
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Trouble resolving resource bundle message with validator.

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I have this message in the resource bundle, but the component does not seems to pick it up, and just uses the default message instead. The only ways I've got it to display the correct message are :
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Character encoding in resource bundle files

I am developing a multilingual site, using resource bundle files. The problem I'm having is that, while the jsp file is save in UTF-8, and the contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8", the foreign characters in the bundle files don't display properly unless I save them as "windows-1252". If I copy the text and paste it into the jsp file, it displays correctly.
How can I make the text from the bundle files display the same as the text in the jsp document itself when both files are saved as UTF-8? I'm surprised it doesn't do this by default.

Because resource bundles (the PropertyResoureceBundle class in particular) doesn't know anything about JSP or HTML page encodings. All that class knows is that it needs to load a properties file from the local (server-side) file system. (BTW, if you are using Struts MessageResources, it works the same way). Anyway, it doesn't read the file every time you call for a resource property String, it reads it 1 time, and 1 time only when you call new ResourceBundle().
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native2ascii converts things to ASCII using Unicode escapes, as I said. (Although, maybe it saves as ISO8895-1, I forget..., or maybe you should specify the output encoding.... you'd have to read the docs on that tool, cuz there's no command-line help.) This is sort-of an exception to the ISO8895-1 thing, in a sense, as all ASCII chars are the same as the first 127 chars of ISO8895-1, so it doesn't matter really.
So in short, it doesn't assume it's in the default Windows encoding, it assumes it's in ISO8895-1. But since the API docs specifically say so, you should abide by those rules.
As for "getting around the problem", yes, it does, actually. See, whatever it reads in that Unicode escaped ASCII text is converted properly to Strings in Java, which are 16-bit Unicode characters, which cover nearly every character set around (English, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Cyrillic, etc). When it's in that form, the chars are the Unicode chars and that's it. That's all they need to be. Encodings are only important when writing (and reading back) to files or other byte streams. You have to read in with the same encoding it was written under, otherwise the conversion is not going to be correct (with a few exceptions, but not many).
So that creates a Unicode String in Java, and when you write that to a JSP page or servlet, the output writer used knows from the content type you specified in the page declaration (UTF-8 is typically recommended because it's an efficent way to deal with Unicode chars, particularly in HTML, where most of the HTML tag content is still ASCII text), so it encodes the strings in that encoding.
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2.
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Resource bundle in shared library?

Is it possible to create a resource bundle in a shared library so you can use the same resource bundle in different application?
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Java: Loading Resource Bundle File with UTF-8

I have found out all my previous problems now, thank you all for your assitance with this...
During the time we have worked so solve our problem with UTF-8 charset we have found new problem with this?
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please have a look at these links for more info:
[http://www.kai-mai.com/node/128]
[http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/PropertyResourceBundle.html]
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My WebTexts files, en, sv and ry are my resource property bundles. To be able to read them i will use resource property bundle reader.
Fmt lib gives me this but it seems that it inciates this in an InputStream (wich is looked to iso-8859-1) instead of a reader who can
read UTF-8 without no problem. So can i get my fmt lib to change this or not, anybody have an idea about this???

Torleif wrote:
Ok, i know there are a few ways of doing this already. The problem is that i have no idea how to use these different problem solving issues. First we have the;
1. native2ascii command line utility.
2. use the XML properties format.
3. other ways of converting from iso-8859-1 to utf-8.
The last one i have tried already but i never get this to work. So after knowing of 2 standardized solutions you choose to implement your own non-standard soltion? That's usually not a good idea until you've verified that the standardized solution don't help.
This is also not the best solution to the problem i have to say. This way i will have both properties files and source files to work with and that is to much i think. Either i will use the native2ascii command or use XML properties format like you say here. I need some more insight in how these two work only because i have no idea my self.Uhm .. read [the documentation|http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Properties.html]? loadFromXML/storeToXML work pretty much exactly the same as load/store, except they handle XML. Try it, look at what it produces, learn.
Could you please help and explain how to use either this native2ascii command line work or how this XML format properties would work for me. Please i need guidance here with this!!![native2ascii is documented as well|http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/tools/windows/native2ascii.html].
If you have a specific question after reading those, feel free to ask here.
You really have to work on your Google-fu, it seems to be too weak.

Default lookup of resource bundle is wrong ?

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i have defined resource bundle files for localizing purpose, which i define:
localization.properties
localization_da.properties (danish language)
localization_sv.properties (swedish language)
By default for all other languages than danish & swedish, it should use the localized texts from localization.properties
However i have a weird scenario: i created a user with English language.
On the development server, the user uses the localization.properties
On the test server, the user (with english and all other languages than da/sv) uses the localization_da.properties INSTEAD!?!?
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5. Portal default locale (i checked prtDefault.properties file in both servers, it both set to EN/US as default setting)
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- Anyone know how to check JVM default language?
I checked the windows language setting, both have EN as default so no different in this case neither.
So how can one server uses the correct resource and another use the wrong resource still, any ideas??
Are there any other settings i haven't checked yet? Any helps will be very appreciated.
I think about my work around is to have only 3 resource files:
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localization_da.properties (danish language)
localization_sv.properties (swedish language)
but i don't sure if it's possible to have no default localization.properties file?

Hi,
+"But what is the point of having Bundle class for let say EO"+
The point is to allow applications to be translated into multiple languages so that - based on the user language setting - the application runs with native labels. This works well with the default properties or Java resource bundle in ADF BC. So what doesn't work is the solution you copied from the AMIS blog and you may want to reach out to them if this works for them and if not why. Oracle support is correct in that they cannot support 3rd party samples and demos
Frank

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Hi,
i have defined resource bundle files for localizing purpose, which i define:
localization.properties
localization_da.properties (danish language)
localization_sv.properties (swedish language)
By default for all other languages than danish & swedish, it should use the localized texts from localization.properties
However i have a weird scenario: i created a user with English language.
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<a href="http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/42/938297a5061d69e10000000a1553f6/frameset.htm">Lookup of Recource Bundle</a>, which is quite useful but didn't help resolve this problem.
As it states the locale is determined by the following priorities:
1. Component locale (there's no setting in this case)
2. Portal mandatory localte (no setting neither)
3. User locale (i have set the bebud info and it shows correctly that user has EN language)
4. Request locate (the request.getLocale also shows the EN language which is correct)
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6. System default locale
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I checked the windows language setting, both have EN as default so no different in this case neither.
So how can one server uses the correct resource and another use the wrong resource still, any ideas??
Are there any other settings i haven't checked yet? Any helps will be very appreciated.
I think about my work around is to have only 3 resource files:
localization_en.properties (english and other languages)
localization_da.properties (danish language)
localization_sv.properties (swedish language)
but i don't sure if it's possible to have no default localization.properties file?

Hi Matt,
> but i don't sure if it's possible to have
> no default localization.properties file?
No, that leads to an exception if the language determined for a user is not reflected by some bundle file. You can still duplicate the localization_en.properties file to localization.properties.
Anyhow, if - for whatever reason - the bundle localization_da.properties got selected for a certain user, it probably also will be selected if you provide additional property files...
Hope it helps
Detlev

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