native2ascii

Are you viewing the file in Notepad? (That sounds like a stupid editor that can't deal with line feeds cross-platform)

With  number of different editors Wordpad, UltraEdit etc.

OK - what character is the original?

the original characters are being saved fromt he notepad
1) As an Ansi file (Greek characters)
2) As Unicode
3) As UTF-8

All of the Greek characters

But the result is the same.

I think that if we encode in the right form the Greek characters it will save me a lot of refectorng.

Now I am thinking of using        

BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
            new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream("lan_el.properties"), "UTF8"));
String str = in.readLine();

But this will be costly in terms of programming. I will have to change a lot of things

EN=Ελληνική
FR=Γαλλική
CS=Τσεχική
DA=Δανική
DE=Γερμανική
EL=Ελληνική
ES=Ισπανική
ET=Εσθονική
FI=Φινλανδική
HU=Ουγγρική
IT=Ιταλική
LT=Λιθουανική
LV=Λετονική
NL=Ολλανδική
MT=Μαλτέζικη
PL=Πολωνική
PT=Πορτογαλική
SL=Σλοβενική
SK=Σλοβακική
SV=Σουηδική

I have just copied/paste the file to the page and voila :)

What is that ??
Escaped form ?

The file must be at UTF8 in order for the native2ascii to work right

Yes.

OK - you may want to delete this then - just post 0-pointer to CS

that's ok. :)

OK then - thanks :-)