You can use ant build with this: anonymous wrote : Like all java properties files, the file is encoded in ISO-8859-1; if you need to represent other characters, you will need to use escape sequences. The standard Java programs "native2ascii" or "ascii2native" is the best way to write these secape sequences. Search http://java.sun.com for more information on using these tools. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4067920#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...