@PropertySource and UTF-8 properties file

Question

Is it possible, using @PropertySource annotation, to configure the encoding that has to be used to load the property file?

An example to clarify my prob

Answer 1

.properties files are per definition ISO-8859-1 encoded. So I'm afraid you can't do that.

You can however use \uXXXX unicode escapes to represent any unicode character you want. The (slightly misnamed) native2ascii tool can help with automatically doing that.