Property files

Property files can be written and read with the methods store() and load() in the class java.util.Properties. If the specified streams are file streams, it is assumed in BS2000 that these files are read or created in the default code set (value of system property file.encoding).

This does not happen if this JENV extension for the “Localized Streams” has been deactivated (see section "Localized streams"). Property files are then always written or expected in the ISO8859-1 encoding (i.e. ASCII encoding).

This behavior is compatible with that on IBM systems.