Yes you can.
You could use the ANT 'native2ascii' task to be executed automatically
with Eclipse.
The following are simple steps to follow with Eclipse 3.1 and a JDK
(1.4+) already installed.
1- Start Eclipse 3.1 with a JDK (not a JRE).
To be sure, just before starting Eclipse, edit 'eclipse.ini' file in
{ECLIPSE_HOME} folder
and put in the two first lines the two following lines:
-vm
{JDK_HOME}\bin\javaw.exe
This example works for Windows.
Of course {JDK_HOME} must be change appropriately for the JDK root
folder path.
2- In yur project, make sure that all your property files :
a- are located in 'hebrew_properties' sub-folder
b- have the '.properties' file extension
c- are saved with the appropriate encoding (for instance
'ISO-8859-8' encoding).
To be sure, open each file, then 'File' / 'Properties', then
check with the 'text file encoding' section.
3- In the root of your project, create a new file that you could name:
'convert_properties.xml'
and with the following content:
<project name="convert_properties" default="convert">
<target name="convert">
<native2ascii encoding="ISO-8859-8"
src="hebrew_properties"
dest="WEB-INF/classes"
includes="**/*.properties"
/>
</target>
</project>
4- Right-click on your project, then 'Properties', select 'Builders' in
tne left, then 'New' and 'OK' ('Ant Build' is pre-selected).
Change the 'Name' field for 'convert_properties', then for
'Buildfile' click on 'Browse Workspace...' and select the
'convert_properties.xml' file.
Then click on the 'Targets' panel, in 'Auto Build:' section click on
'Set Targets...' and then 'OK' ('convert' is pre-selected).
Then click 'OK' and again 'OK'.
This should work fine and smoothly.
Of course you can change the folder names / files extensions / other
names at will.
Regards
