How to use UTF-8 in resource properties with ResourceBundle

Question

I need to use UTF-8 in my resource properties using Java\'s ResourceBundle. When I enter the text directly into the properties file, it displays as mojibake.

Answer 1

This problem has finally been fixed in Java 9: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/intl/internationalization-enhancements-jdk-9

Default encoding for properties files is now UTF-8.

Most existing properties files should not be affected: UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 have the same encoding for ASCII characters, and human-readable non-ASCII ISO-8859-1 encoding is not valid UTF-8. If an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence is detected, the Java runtime automatically rereads the file in ISO-8859-1.