Non english characters in messages.properties

[cardel]

Hi,
I have some iso-8859-1 characters (czech) in my messages.properties. But when I use this message e.g. with outputText or with facesMessages.addFromResourceBundle they are wrong represented and page show me some bad symbols.
I have all pages in UTF-8 encoding.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

I tried some others encoding and combinations, but I wasn´t successful. I am using JBoss AS 4.2.1 GA and Seam 2.0.0.GA

Any suggestions?

[pmuir]

I'm not very good at i8ln, but shouldn't messages.properties be UTF-8 encoded as well in the situation?

[jazir1979]

I'm not very good at i8ln, but shouldn't messages.properties be UTF-8 encoded as well in the situation?

No, in fact you need to escape your UTF-8 characters in properties files, for example:

help=\u5E2E\u52A9

I do this automatically in my ANT build as follows:

<native2ascii encoding="UTF-8" src="${src.dir}" dest="${classes.dir}" includes="messages*.properties"/>

hope it helps,
Daniel.

[cardel]

Thank you, it works...
I downloaded property bundle editor plugin into eclipse and every uknown characters are escaped...