dominikdorn.com » umlauts http://dominikdorn.com shit happens ;) Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:47:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Using German Umlauts / Umlaute in JSF/JSF2 http://dominikdorn.com/2010/02/using-german-umlauts-umlaute-in-jsf-jsf2/ http://dominikdorn.com/2010/02/using-german-umlauts-umlaute-in-jsf-jsf2/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:28:16 +0000 Dominik Dorn http://dominikdorn.com/?p=198 If you happen to localize your JSF Web-Application to German, you’ll probably have problems displaying German Umlauts ( äÄ, ö Ö, ü Ü, ß) in your page.

How to resolve this? Encode the umlauts with their Unicode code in your message-bundle like this

  1. ä = \u00e4
  2. Ä = \u00c4
  3. ö = \u00f6
  4. Ö =\u00d6
  5. ü = \u00fc
  6. Ü = \u00dc
  7. ß = \u00df

So, e.g. just specify it like this in your bundle.properties

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homework=Haus\u00fcbung

Specify the bundle itself in your faces-config.xml

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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
 
<faces-config version="2.0"
    xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-facesconfig_2_0.xsd">
 
    <application>
        <resource-bundle>
            <base-name>/bundle</base-name>
            <var>bundle</var>
        </resource-bundle>
    </application>
</faces-config>

and use it in your facelets page example.xhtml like this:

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#{bundle.homework}

or like this

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<h:outputText value="#{bundle.homework}" />

If you don’t want to convert all the Umlauts in your bundle by hand, simply use javas

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native2ascii

command to automatically encode the Umlauts in your bundle.properties file.

Update:
I found this unicode chart, which I think is quite useful!

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