Thanks for quick answer. Do you know how to make such a mapping from non-english characters to \uXXXX in painless way in eclipse? PS. It's not so obvious that standard for .properties is ISO-8859-1, when everywhere in java world UTF-8 is a standard. Especially using ISO-8859-1 in files that are used for internationalization is a little bit strange. I think that this should be explained in reference documentation Chapter 14. Internationalization and themes. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4067914#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...