I'm trying to have Freemarker parse my template files as UTF-8, but it seems to be always parsing them as Cp1252.
2013-07-30 00:00:00.984 DEBUG freemarker.cache:? Could not find template in cache, creating new one; id=["myFile.ftl"["es_MX",Cp1252,parsed] ]
I searched and found that adding the FTL directive allows me to specify the encoding.
I added it to the template file (saved in UTF-8 with BOM in Notepad++) like so:
<#ftl encoding="UTF-8">
Estimado Usuario,
Testing this content!
<#/ftl>
But get this in the log.
MessageTemplateException [message=Unable to process template due to Encountered "<#ftl " at line 1, column 4 in myFile.ftl.
Was expecting one of:
<EOF>
<ATTEMPT> ...
<IF> ...
<LIST> ...
<FOREACH> ...
<SWITCH> ...
<ASSIGN> ...
<GLOBALASSIGN> ...
<LOCALASSIGN> ...
<_INCLUDE> ...
<IMPORT> ...
<FUNCTION> ...
<MACRO> ...
<TRANSFORM> ...
<VISIT> ...
<STOP> ...
<RETURN> ...
<CALL> ...
<SETTING> ...
<COMPRESS> ...
<COMMENT> ...
<TERSE_COMMENT> ...
<NOPARSE> ...
<BREAK> ...
<SIMPLE_RETURN> ...
<HALT> ...
<FLUSH> ...
<TRIM> ...
<LTRIM> ...
<RTRIM> ...
<NOTRIM> ...
<SIMPLE_NESTED> ...
<NESTED> ...
<SIMPLE_RECURSE> ...
<RECURSE> ...
<FALLBACK> ...
<ESCAPE> ...
<NOESCAPE> ...
<UNIFIED_CALL> ...
<WHITESPACE> ...
<PRINTABLE_CHARS> ...
<FALSE_ALERT> ...
"${" ...
"#{" ...
with inputs of {loginUrl=testURL} in myFile.ftl with locale es_MX, code=SUCCESS, arguments=[]]
Maybe I'm not doing this right?
Don't use BOM. Also don't use </#ftl>, there's only <#ftl>. But most importantly, if most of your templates are in UTF-8, just set the default encoding of FreeMarker to UTF-8 (in Spring, something like <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.freemarker.FreeMarkerConfigurer">...<property name="freemarkerSettings">...<props>...<prop key="default_encoding">UTF-8</prop>), so your don't need to use #ftl because of this.