&quot;pete.muir(a)jboss.org&quot; wrote : I'm not very good at i8ln, but shouldn't messages.properties be UTF-8 encoded as well in the situation? No, in fact you need to escape your UTF-8 characters in properties files, for example: | help=\u5E2E\u52A9 | I do this automatically in my ANT build as follows: | <native2ascii encoding="UTF-8" src="${src.dir}" dest="${classes.dir}" includes="messages*.properties"/> | hope it helps, Daniel. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4117410#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...