Can't use "%" in JVM options or Environment Variables

[Chris Crowley]

I think I've tried everything. I want to specify a logging format in the VM arguments. But it seems that "%"s are all blindly replaced with environment variables. For example, I want to set this:

-Djava.util.logging.SimpleFormatter.format="%1$tY-%1$tm-%1$td %1$tH:%1$tM:%1$tS [%4$s] %5$s%6$s%n"

But all the %s get paired up and replaced with "". Thus it gets interpreted as this:

-Djava.util.logging.SimpleFormatter.format="1$tm-1$tH:1$tS [5$sn"

This is also true when creating environment variables in L4j. I've tried every sort of escaping and encoding I can think of. I could probably use a manually created environment variable, but that undermines the whole "just run it" reason for using L4j.

Has anyone figured this out? Should I just submit a bug or feature request?

[Grzegorz Kowal]

Please submit a bug, the percentage sign cannot be escaped.

Grzegorz

[Chris Crowley]

Done. Thanks.