UTF-8 encoding of application.properties attributes in Spring-Boot

Question

In my application.properties I add some custom attributes.

custom.mail.property.subject-message=This is a ä ö ü ß problem

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Answer 1

As already mentioned in the comments .properties files are expected to be encoded in ISO 8859-1. One can use unicode escapes to specify other characters. There is also a tool available to do the conversion. This can for instance be used in the automatic build so that you still can use your favorite encoding in the source.