Hi Eddie, I am using chinese characters in Seam with no problems. I have a messages_zh.properties with entries like: Copyright=2006 \u8457\u4F5C And I'm using this on my home page to allow the user to switch from their default locale (as sent by the browser): <h:selectOneMenu value="#{localeSelector.localeString}"> <f:selectItems value="#{localeSelector.supportedLocales}"/> </h:selectOneMenu> <h:commandButton action="#{localeSelector.select}" value="#{messages.home_ChangeLanguage}"/> And the locale support in my faces-config.xml: <locale-config> <default-locale>en-AU</default-locale> <supported-locale>zh-CN</supported-locale> </locale-config> It works very well. good luck, Daniel. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3982241#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...