How to use UTF-8 in resource properties with ResourceBundle

Question

I need to use UTF-8 in my resource properties using Java\'s ResourceBundle. When I enter the text directly into the properties file, it displays as mojibake.

Answer 1

Attention: java property files should be encoded in ISO 8859-1!

ISO 8859-1 character encoding. Characters that cannot be directly represented in this encoding can be written using Unicode escapes ; only a single 'u' character is allowed in an escape sequence.

@see Properties Java Doc

If you still really want to do this: have a look at: Java properties UTF-8 encoding in Eclipse -- there are some code samples