May 2015

Java Spring: Display Chinese Characters in Email

May 26, 2015

My current task is to implement localization for a website.

There is no issue with displaying the Chinese characters in the website.

However, I just have one problem: Chinese characters appear as question mark in emails.

Already set the encoding to UTF-8 but it still won't work.

I did some research and come up with these links:

These links, though helpful, did not solve the problem.

Fortunately, my team leader eventually got the solution.

In the config file, we just had to add this property for the JavaMail bean.

<property name="defaultEncoding" value="UTF-8"/>

And tadaan! Works like magic :D

Localize jQuery Validate

May 20, 2015

Here is a code snippet on how to localize the custom error messages for the jQuery Validation Plugin, assuming I have already imported the proper libraries.

I have created a separate function in my script to set the proper error messages.

function addCustomMessages(){
    $("#inputName").rules("add", {
        messages: {
            required: errorRequired,
            minlength: errorMinLength
        }
    });
}

where errorRequired and errorMinLength are global variables that holds the localized messages.

The function will be called every time the language is changed.

$("#languageSelector").change(function(){
 // code here to get the translations
 addCustomMessages(); // code that will load the messages for the jQuery validation plugin
});

Works like magic. :)

I'll try to add a fiddle next time to further clarify.

Other helpful links:

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Java Spring: Display Chinese Characters in Email

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