End to end UTF-8 encoding usage with MySql and Spring – Part 2
September 1st, 2006 by
Ioan Cocan in
Java, General
One thing I forgot to mention was the usage of Spring message bundles. Usually, a ResourceBundleMessageSource is configured to inject bundle messages for Spring MVC. The only bad thing is that I could not specify an encoding for the configured message.properties files. As the default properties format is ISO 8859-1 character encoding and tedious operations like transformation of Unicode characters using native2ascii tool is necessary, I looked for a way to load UTF-8 resource files without any transformations. Spring has a ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource class that allows just that, along with the reloadable behaviour. The bundle configuration now looks:
<bean id=”messageSource” class=”org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource”>
<property name=”basename”>
<value>/WEB-INF/classes/messages</value>
</property>
<property name=”defaultEncoding”>
<value>UTF-8</value>
</property>
<property name=”cacheSeconds”>
<value>-1</value>
</property>
</bean>
