Alfresco localization encoding

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Trying to create custom types, aspects and properties for Alfresco, I followed the Alfresco Developer Series guide. When I reached the localization section I found out that Alfresco does not handle UTF-8 encoding in the .properties files that you create. Greek characters are not displayed correctly in Share.

Checking out other built-in .properties files (/opt/alfresco-4.0.e/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/messages) I noticed that in Japanese, for example, the characters are in this notation: \u3059\u3079\u3066\u306e...

So, the question is: do I have to convert the greek words in the above mentioned notation for Share to display them correctly, or is there another -more elegant- way to do it?

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The \u#### form is the Java form of the Unicode Escape Sequence, and is used to reference unicode characters without having to worry about the encoding of the file storing them.

This question has some information on how to create and decode them

Another way, which is what Alfresco developers tend to use, is the Native2ASCII tool which ships with Java itself. With that, you can initially write your strings in a UTF-8 (for example) file, then use the tool to turn them into their escaped form.