[gatein-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Work stopped: (GTNPORTAL-1775) Bad handling of special characters by portal ResourceBundle

Bad handling of special characters by portal ResourceBundle ----------------------------------------------------------- Key: GTNPORTAL-1775 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/GTNPORTAL-1775 Project: GateIn Portal Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Affects Versions: 3.1.0-GA Environment: GateIn trunk rev 5668 , GateIn common librayr version: common-common-2.0.3-GA Reporter: Marek Posolda Assignee: Minh Hoang TO Labels: portal-s48, review_julien Attachments: localization-test-portlet-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.war Original Estimate: 4 hours Remaining Estimate: 4 hours It seems that properties file are not handled correctly by GateIn portal. For example this property: prefix.key=Hello, This character will not be escaped in portlet \: is read by portal ResourceBundle implementation ( org.gatein.common.i18n.ParentChildResourceBundle ) as "Hello, This character will not be escaped in portlet \:" . But special characters like ":" should be escaped and first "\" should be ignored by ResourceBundle. In javadoc to Properties class http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Properties.html#st... can be seen: The key and element characters #, !, =, and : are written with a preceding backslash to ensure that they are properly loaded. And some editors like JBoss Tools Property Editor are saving special characters with backslash and this backslash is now incorrectly read by portal and shown in portlets. I am attaching example portlet application, which can be used to simulate the issue. Sources are attached as well.