Issues with russian language translation in ADF application

Question

While testing the Russian translations, we are running into an issue . Basically the contents for the Russian translation when accessed from application, look all malformed. Not sure if it is related to character set encoding/decoding issues. We have no issues with German and French language, so the question is, is there anything specific that needs to be taken care for Russian language ?
Below is the source .properties file, which looks all Russian.
OK=ОК
CANCEL=Отмена
NOTIFICATIONS=Уведомления
INSTRUMENT_ALERTS=Предупреждающие знаки инструмента
CONTRACTS_EXPIRING=Контракты с истекающим сроком
OPEN_REPAIR_SERVICE_ORDERS=Открыть вызов инженера
NEW_PROMOTIONS=Обновления
MESSAGES=Сообщения
NEW_CONNECTIONS=Новые подключения
SERIAL_NUMBER=Серийный номер
ORDER_NUMBER=Номер задачи
MODEL_NUMBER=Номер модели
DESCRIPTION=Описание
CONTRACT_NAME=Название контракта
GINGER_ID_=идентификационный номер \:
Below is what perforce (versioning system) merges for the above file. If we open this in notepad++ or microsoft word , set the encoding to Cyrillic (KOI8-R), it will show the Russian format as above.
OK=ïë
CANCEL=ïÔÍÅÎÁ
NOTIFICATIONS=õ×ÅÄÏÍÌÅÎÉÑ
INSTRUMENT_ALERTS=ðÒÅÄÕÐÒÅÖÄÁÀÝÉÅ ÚÎÁËÉ ÉÎÓÔÒÕÍÅÎÔÁ
CONTRACTS_EXPIRING=ëÏÎÔÒÁËÔÙ Ó ÉÓÔÅËÁÀÝÉÍ ÓÒÏËÏÍ
OPEN_REPAIR_SERVICE_ORDERS=ïÔËÒÙÔØ ×ÙÚÏ× ÉÎÖÅÎÅÒÁ
NEW_PROMOTIONS=ïÂÎÏ×ÌÅÎÉÑ
MESSAGES=óÏÏÂÝÅÎÉÑ
NEW_CONNECTIONS=îÏ×ÙÅ ÐÏÄËÌÀÞÅÎÉÑ
SERIAL_NUMBER=óÅÒÉÊÎÙÊ ÎÏÍÅÒ
ORDER_NUMBER=îÏÍÅÒ ÚÁÄÁÞÉ
MODEL_NUMBER=îÏÍÅÒ ÍÏÄÅÌÉ
DESCRIPTION=ïÐÉÓÁÎÉÅ
CONTRACT_NAME=îÁÚ×ÁÎÉÅ ËÏÎÔÒÁËÔÁ
GINGER_ID_=ÉÄÅÎÔÉÆÉËÁÃÉÏÎÎÙÊ ÎÏÍÅÒ \:
And,our portal application ends up showing what is merged in(that is malformed text as opposed to properly decoded russian text) . Looks like while creating the ear file jdeveloper just picks up the encoded characters and does not actually convert it into russian text. We have set our environment to UTF8, and the browser encoding includes the Cyrillic (KOI8-R).
Any pointers will greatly help.

Answer 1

Hi,
It seems the property files are stored somehow with wrong characterset (not UTF-8)
Have you checked for german umlaut (like ä,ü,ö,...) in your german property files too? Are they ok?
We had similar issues with the german language a long time ago and as far I can remember it was the encoding setting in jdev preferences:
Tools --> preferences --> environment --> Encoding should be "UTF-8"
Project properties --> compiler--> Character Encoding should be "UTF-8"
If you have to change this setting then you have to edit and save the russian property file again.
As mentioned in the other post you can use native2ascii (http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/tooldocs/windows/native2ascii.html)
at the command line to verify the encoding faster than deploying and run the application.
native2ascii is used also when you build your project in Jdeveloper to convert all the property files.
regards
Peter