Spring mvc -Properties file encoding

Question

I have a problem reading some character in a property file in Spring MVC.

I know properties file are encoded in ISO-8859-1 so I set my messageSource bean to set the default encode to UTF-8

@Bean
    public MessageSource messageSource() {
        ResourceBundleMessageSource messageSource = new ResourceBundleMessageSource();
        messageSource.setBasename("messages");
        messageSource.setDefaultEncoding("UTF-8");
        return messageSource;
    }

Before this modification, for example I saw the à character as ï¿½, after the à became ?

I've also tried to use ReloadedResourceBundleMessageSource with no effect

How can I display just à?

ELavicount ELavicount · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-23T22:59:11

the javadoc states the following:

Characters that cannot be directly represented in this encoding can be written using Unicode escapes as defined in section 3.3 of The Java™ Language Specification; only a single 'u' character is allowed in an escape sequence. The native2ascii tool can be used to convert property files to and from other character encodings. Source here

I been using that approach when I work with the ISO-8859-1 encoding (For example: number=N\u00famero) for a while but now I use the ReloadedResourceBundleMessageSource like you describe and it works flawlessly, as far I can know your properties file should be encoded using UTF-8 as well, you could try to encode your file using native2ascii like this example:

native2ascii -encoding UTF-8 file1.properties file2.properties

Spring mvc -Properties file encoding

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