I'm not very good at i8ln, but shouldn't messages.properties be UTF-8 encoded as well in the situation? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4117402#4117402 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4117402