Character-encoding problem spring

Question

I am stuck in a big problem with encoding in my website! I use spring 3, tomcat 6, and mysql db. I want to support German and Czech along with English in my website, I creat

Answer 1

First, if your project is using Maven, make sure that the Maven Resources Plugin has UTF-8 set as its character encoding scheme, otherwise the message properties files could be written to your target with an incorrect encoding.

Second, you're using ResourceBundleMessageSource, which uses the standard java.util.ResourceBundle and java.util.Properties, which only support ISO-8859-1 encoding. You can instead use ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource like:

which I discovered from this Cake Solutions blog post.