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PrintStream (aka System.out) trims off the high-order byte.

According to the book Core Java 1.1, Advanced Features, this is the case. The work around suggested in the book is to use ListResourceBundle instead. According to Sun's Bug Parade, there is a work...more

Well the Reader really wraps an InputStream which gives byte-level access to the data source. What the Reader (e.g. InputStreamReader) does is to load a correct implementation of sun.io.ByteToCha...more

Depending upon which version of Java you are using, there are different answers. With 1.3, the labels are in properties files. You can add a property file with the labels for a JFileChooser, JCol...more

The underlying DBMS must support Unicode or the desired encoding. Internally, Java data are stored as Unicode only. So, if the Database supports Unicode and the table was created that way, the dat...more

The default encoding used by locale/encoding sensitive API in the Java libraries is determined by the System property "file.encoding". This system property is initialized by the JVM star...more

The javadoc for the ResourceBundle class describes the methodology method determining which bundle to use. See http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/api/java/util/ResourceBundle.html. more

Java supports a number of encodings for use with InputStreamReaders and OutputStreamWriters. By using these classes, it's easy to read and write Unicode or any other supported encodings. Here's ...more

Alas, there is no standard way, currently, to reload ResourceBundles. You can vote for this to be fixed on the JDC Bug Parade (#4212439). more

In order to localize labels, you need to pull them all out and do lookups at runtime. The Java means to do this is through the ResourceBundle class. Resource bundles provide a simple key-value loo...more

A ResourceBundle is like a specialized form of a Hashtable that maps strings to values. That doesn't sound too exciting by itself, but the magic of ResourceBundle allows you to have different look...more

That depends on what you mean by "between". If you want to find out the number of 24-hour periods between two Date objects d1 and d2 (d2 > d1) then you would do this: double days = (d2.getTim...more

Unicode provides a standard encoding for the character sets of different languages. The encoding is independent of the platform, program, or language used to access said data. Visit the Unicode Co...more

The Java libraries and println() method provide no direct equivalent to printf/sprintf. While Acme labs provides an alternative at http://www.acme.com/java/software/Acme.Fmt.html, the NumberFormat...more

Because internationalization is too long to write all the time. There are 20 characters in internationalization. The number of characters between the first and last character is 18. So, if you wri...more