# Sample properties file. # Syntax rules: # Everything is case-sensitive. Precise upper or lower case matters. # Comment lines begin with #. # The data consist of keyword=value pairs. # The keywords can contain dots and underscores but not spaces or =. # The values can contain dots, underscores, spaces and = # The file uses ISO-8859-1 encoding. # You can get additional characters with \uxxxx escapes or with \" \' \t, \r, \n, or \f # To embed spaces in a properties file, you should code them as \ e.g. red\ fire\ engine not "red fire engine". # Leading and trailing spaces on a value will be trimmed, unless they are coded with \ . # Alternatively, just leave spaces them as space. # This is safe, except when the spaces are at the # beginning or end of a value, or near continuation. # Use a trailing \ for continuation. # Use # on a line by itself or a totally blank line for visual spacing. # # official safe way to handle spaces in value. vehicle=red\ fire\ engine # spaces in value, the sloppy way, usually ok. com.mindprod.inwords.Indonesian=Bahasa Indonesia # value will appear to the Java program as a String. It must manually convert it to int. historyCapacity=8000 # how to embed quot marks quotation=On awaking from his bender, Lincoln said, \"I freed the what?\". # nothing special needed to embed = in a value formula=e=mc2 #leading and trailing spaces on values are automatically trimmed slop = 30 # how to embed an ’ with \u2018 escape. See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/htmlentities.html for codes. title=Xenu\u2018s Output # use of underscore in property name background_colour=light yellow # use of continuation whenIGrowUp=I want to go to Europe and feed the sea gull\ s in France.