How do I put hypertext links in message bundles?

[rstevens]

In messages.properties, how do I use less than and greater than characters for HTML tags?

I've tried

Less than and greater than characters:

<a href="/terms.html" target="_blank">

Escaping them:

\<a href="/terms.html" target="_blank"\>

UNICODE

\u2039a href="/terms.html" target="_blank"\u203A

HTML characters

<a href="/terms.html" target="_blank">

[rstevens]

We found something that works. I did not escape or use any special characters in the messages.properties file and used this in my code

<h:outputText value="#{messages['terms.msg']}" escape="false" />