File Entries Format

Each line of the properties file uses the format key=value. Lines can be continued using a backslash (\\) at the end of the line. The .properties files are encoded using Java Unicode encoding where non-ASCII characters are represented using \\uXXXX notation. Here, the \\uXXXX is the hexidecimal representation of the Unicode value for the character. This type of file can be created from a native file using the Java native2ascii program available in the JDK 1.3.1 package that is installed in the JDK_DIR directory specified in /etc/opt/SUNWps/PSConfig.properties file.

The messages represented by the value part of the line are formatted using the conventions of the Java java.text.Message format class. See the Javadocs for this class for more details on how to express parameters within messages. Parameters are enclosed in curly braces ({}).