If you use eclipse this free plugin makes things pretty easy and does the escapes/encoding for you: http://www.resourcebundleeditor.com/ View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4092308#4092308 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4092308