German umlaute in resource bundles

Hi,
I am localizing an app in german. On windows I can use wordpad or Netbeans to type german umlaute (��) directly into the resource bundles (I have a german keyboard). But I fear, if someone runs this app on e.g. Linux, this does not work. I remember opening such files with an editor on Linux and the umlaute turned into some other strange letters. I think the same happens on english windows installs?
How can I do this right, to be able to run this app on Linux later?
Ingo

Ok, I am answering my own question here, just in case anybody else has the same problem. The solution is: use the native2ascii tool to covert files written with notepad into unicode. Or, use Netbeans to edit the resource Bundles (property files), it saves them in unicode from the beginning.
Ingo

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