Unable to read Chinese resource file S40 SDK 2

[javadude]

My app is translated into 9 national languages: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese, Hindi, Russian, & Arabic.

However, I've hit a really odd problem on S40 SDK 2. It cannot read the Chinese resource file - end of file is reached when attempting to read the first byte!

All nine resource files can be read in S40 E3 & E6 and S60 emulators. The same behaviour is found on actual devices (I have used exactly the same build (JAD/JAR) on each emulator and device).

The following resource file snippets are in English and Chinese respectively:

1000=HTTP authorisation failed
1010=Bad HTTP request
1020=Customer information failed
1030=Delivery limit exceeded
1040=Error in connecting to drm server

1000=HTTP授权失败
1010=错误的HTTP请求
1020=客户信息失败
1030=交付超出限制
1040=连接drm服务器时出错

I have worked around the problem by loading the English resource file if no keys are loaded into the hash map, but I think this is a platform bug.

[petrib]

What's the encoding format used in the Chinese file?

[javadude]

All resource files are in UTF-8.

[Apologies for the slow response - I just found the alert email in my junk folder ]

[traud]

How do you read those files? this.getClass().getResourceAsStream and then ByteArrayInputStream or InputStreamReader?

[javadude]

I create a reader from an input stream:

InputStream stream = System.class.getResourceAsStream(path);
Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(stream, encoding);

[traud]

Try to break it down and debug it with ByteArrayInputStream and ‘new String(line, "UTF-8")’. Perhaps a single char is the problem.

[javadude]

I did originally debug this and found that I get an end of file attempting to read the first byte!

Given that it only occurs on S40 SDK 2 I think this is a platform bug.

I have logged a bug with Nokia for this - Bug 1073 - Unable to read Chinese resource file S40 SDK 2 but no-one is paying any attention.

The trouble is that the platform returns end of file. I can't see a work-around for this so it's my app look ends up looking bad.

[traud]

Even with ByteArrayInputStream? Which actual phones have you tested, I try to replicate it here then. Is there a (invalid) byte-order-mark (BOM) at the beginning of your file?

[javadude]

Each translation file is produced in exactly the same manner - i.e. from a spreadsheet: =CONCATENATE(<key_cell>,"=",<translation_cell>) where <translation_cell> is from a different column for each language - so I wouldn't expect any differences as far as keys are concerned, only values (translations).

I currently test my app on Oracle SDK 3.2 (ok) and Nokia S40 E6 (ok) & S40 SDK 2 (fail) emulators. I then test on selected remote devices on Nokia.

I used to test on Sun SDK 3.0, Nokia S40 E3 & S60 (all ok).

The only one that has ever given me a problem is S40 SDK 2 (emulator and phones).

I haven't yet tried your suggestion of ByteArrayInputStream and ‘new String(line, "UTF-8")’ so can't comment at this time.

[traud]

I do not have a emulator at hand right now. Which phone model(s) have you tested?

[grahamhughes]

Does this help?