Ok, here's the deal.

The properties file is generated in ISO8859-1 encoding but(and this is 
what I didn't realise :-[ ) when I edit the file to put the 
APPLICATION_GUID as HELLOÀÁÀ, both vim and gedit convert the file into 
UTF-8.

I used iconv to reconvert the file into ISO8859-1 and now it seems to be 
working.

However, when I use Firefox to view the same file, it shows the encoding 
as KOI8-R :-\ . This probably speaks more about Mozilla's unreliability.

Anyways, thanks for your assistance. It was highly appreciated.

-Lokesh


On 4/23/2012 9:33 PM, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> On 2012-04-23, Lokesh Jain wrote:
>
>> On 4/23/2012 1:53 PM, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
>>> On 2012-04-21, Lokesh Jain wrote:
>>>> But on a CentOS box, the same property is read by the task program
>>>> along with some junk unicode chars. Consequently, the strings do not
>>>> match which affects some of the internal logic of the ant task.
>>> What is "the task programm"?  And how does it read the properties?
>>> Maybe this one is expecting a different encoding than they have been
>>> written with?
>> I apologize for not being clear earlier. The task program refers to
>> the java class used as the custom ant task. The property file is being
>> read using Ant's built-in property task. What I meant to say was that
>> the java custom task class field corresponding to ${APPLICATION_GUID}
>> property had junk/incorrect chars for its value.
>>> Does Ant's built-in property task (maybe using a prefix) work?
>>> Something like
>>> <property file="build.properties" prefix="foo"/>
>>> <echo>${foo.APPLICATION_GUID}</echo>
>> I am afraid echoing is also returning the same junk/incorrect chars.
> In that case build.properties most likely is not ISO-8859-1 encoded, no
> matter what your Firefox says 8-)
>
> Can you perform a binary diff of the Windows and Linux generated files?
>
> If the file happens to use the platform's native encoding and you cannot
> change the code that generates it, you can use Ant's copy task with an
> outputencoding of ISO-8859-1 to re-code it.
>
> Maybe you should try (untested)
>
> <copy file="build.properties" tofile="foo.properties"
>        outputencoding="ISO8851-1" filtering="true"/>
> <property file="foo.properties" prefix="foo"/>
> <echo>${foo.APPLICATION_GUID}</echo>
>
> to verify whether it is an encoding issue.
>
> Stefan
>
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