A tool specially created for viewing translated Java .properties files comprising languages not supported by the ISO 8859-1 character encoding.

This viewer is specially provided to enable users required to translate Java properties files into non-Latin languages, such as Chinese-Japanese-Korean, Cyrillic, Greek and Arabic, to view the actual text before delivering the machine-readable only translated properties.

A Java properties file containing Chinese text looks like this:

PropViewer.0=\u6253\u5f00\u6587\u4ef6
PropViewer.1=\u6587\u4ef6(&F)
PropViewer.11=Java Properties \u6587\u4ef6 [*.properties]
PropViewer.12=\u6240\u6709\u6587\u4ef6 [*.*]
PropViewer.13=\u672a\u77e5\u9519\u8bef\u3002
PropViewer.14=\u5e2e\u52a9(&H)
PropViewer.15=\u5173\u4e8e PropViewer...
PropViewer.2=\u6253\u5f00\u6587\u4ef6
PropViewer.3=\u9000\u51fa\tAlt + X
PropViewer.4=\u9000\u51fa\tCtrl + Q

In Java Properties Viewer the same text becomes readable and looks like this:

Java Properties Viewer is included in Swordfish installers.

• Java 1.5 or better from Sun Microsystems is required to run our products.
  Java is available as free download from http://www.java.com .
• Mozilla XULRunner is required on Linux systems.

Our products are cross-platform by design and work in the following operating systems:

Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7

Mac OS X 10.4/10.5/10.6 (Tiger/Leopard/Snow Leopard)

Linux with GTK2 (i386 and x86_64)