Java Character Convertion to Unicode with native2ascii Utility

While working on multi language assignment found interesting JAVA utility.

native2ascii : Converts a file with ‘non-Latin 1’ or ‘non-Unicode’ characters to ‘Unicode-encoded’ characters.

Sometimes you need this kind of conversion. As in our case we need this to create multi language  resource bundles. 

Here are the steps :

1. Create file [Resource_Original.properties in our case] and save as UTF-8 format [This option is available in popular editors like NotePad++].

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login=Bejelentkezés
personalInformation=Személyes információ
orderHistory=Rendelés történet
paymentInformation=Fizetség információ

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2. Now use native2ascii command to convert it into Unicode format.

 native2ascii -encoding UTF-8 Resource_Original.properties Resource_converted.properties

3. Check the converted file [Resource_converted.properties]. 

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login=Bejelentkez\u00e9s
personalInformation=Szem\u00e9lyes inform\u00e1ci\u00f3
orderHistory=Rendel\u00e9s t\u00f6rt\u00e9net
paymentInformation=Fizets\u00e9g inform\u00e1ci\u00f3

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