Escaping Extended Characters in .PROPERTIES Files |
IssueANSI files may be required to be saved with extended characters escaped to their unicode values. The option "Escape extended characters in .properties files" will convert extended characters or double-byte characters to their unicode value.
SolutionThe following screenshots show the same ANSI encoded source file translated to Japanese. It is extracted with and without the option "Escape extended characters in .properties files" Extracted File with "Escape extended characters in .properties files" option turned onAll the double-byte characters have been escaped to unicode values. The file opened in Notepad looks like this:
Extracted File with "Escape extended characters in .properties files" option turned offAll the double-byte characters will display corrupted when opened in Notepad.
NotesThis applies to ANSI encoded files. For Unicode files there will be no difference between extracted versions of the file whether or not the option is selected or not.
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