How to generate java .properties files in python

[Arnaud Delobelle]

On 5 December 2011 20:05, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com> wrote:
> 03.12.11 23:34, Arnaud Delobelle написав(ла):
>
>> Is there a simple way to achieve this? I could do something like this:
>>
>> def encode(u):
>>     """encode a unicode string in .properties format"""
>>     return u"".join(u"\\u%04x" % ord(c) if ord(c)>  0xFF else c for c
>> in u).encode("latin_1")
>
>
> You must also encode backslash ('\\'), whitespaces and control characters
> (ord(c)<=32), '=' and ':' (key/value delimiters), '#' (comment) and '!'.

Fortunately there aren't any of these in the keys.

> And don't forget characters with code >0xFFFF.

I haven't thought of these.  I don't think that I have any, but I'll
check.  Do you know how they are encoded?

-- 
Arnaud