Displaying Chinese read from resource bundles

I have trouble displaying Chinese characters in my application. The text strings in the application that is shown to the user are put into resource bundles (ResourceBundle). In the file text_zh_TW.properties, the chinese text strings are located. The file is stored in UTF-8 format.
When I fetch a chinese string from this file and display it in the GUI, it is not dispalyed properly. It is displayed almost like this '��>'.
When I "format" the file by using native2ascii, the chinese chars are replaced by unicode escape numbers in the file. Then it works. But I will rather not format the file, because it makes maintanence more difficult.
I'm using JBuilder as development tool.
Does anyone know how to do this?

u are just trying to do nothing but the internalisation concept. usually wat we do is that for example if we want o display any french language or german language we just use go to the corresponding trnslating websites and fetch those french words or any other corresponding language and use to store those words .properties file and after that we will display those words for the selected language.
now ur problem is that as we dont have chinese letters in our keyboards u just go to the sites which will translate those words u mention and u just take a print screen and convert those words by cutting using mspaint and save it as .jpg file format and display those wods correspondingly....

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