How to store resource file in struts in UTF-8 format

Question

Is there any way to store resource file(.properties) in struts 1.x in UTF-8 format. Whenever i save the file it is saved in ISO-8859 format.

Also, can i create a text file in resources folder of struts directory which will act as properties file (so that the text file can be saved in UTF-8 format), and read that file in my application to show the static text of Greek, Russian or any language.

I have read the following and try to come up with the solution but it hasn't work :

https://stackoverflow.com/a/863854/3493471

Using this my code looks like this :

import java.util.Properties;
import java.io.*;
import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;

public class PropertiesListener {

        private static Log log = LogFactory.getLog(PropertiesListener.class);

        protected  static Properties readProperties(String name){
                Properties prop = new Properties();
                InputStream inputStream = null;
                try {
                        //inputStream = new FileInputStream(name);
                        inputStream =  EditMailboxAction.class.getResourceAsStream(name);
                        Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(inputStream, "UTF-8");
                        log.debug("Length :: "+reader.ready());
                        try {
                                prop.load(reader);
                            } catch(Exception ex){
                                 log.debug("1111111111111111111111111");
                                ex.printStackTrace();
                             }finally {
                                reader.close();
                             }
                }catch(FileNotFoundException ex){
                         log.debug("22222222222222222222");
                        ex.printStackTrace();
                  }catch(Exception ex){
                        ex.printStackTrace();
                        }
                         finally {
                  }

                return prop;
        }
}

I have called this above function to read the file using :

Properties properties = PropertiesListener.readProperties("myProperties.properties");

But it doesn't make it helpful.

As myProperties.properties isn't storing UTF-8 Charectors, I don't understand how

Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(inputStream, "UTF-8");

will help in reading UTF-8 charectors.

Answer 1

Got it working. I have modified struts-config.xml and it works.