Java Internationalization and .properties files

Hi everyone,
Isn't it problematic that the way to internationalize your java apps ( .properties files ) doesn't support UTF-8 and you have to user gibberish looking unicode escapes. Some will say that you don't need to write and the converters or editors will handle the ascii conversion but the requirement for such a intermediate process doesn't seem right. Sometime you have to edit some string on the server and it should be human readable using text editors that support UTF-8. I thought loadFromXML and storeToXML methods that came with java 1.5 seemed to solve the problem but than noticed that PropertyResourceBundle doesn't support xml properties files. Is backwards compatibility the reason that properties files aren't utf-8 by default?
Thanks
Bilgehan

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[svn] 2200: The main package will now also include the ja swc' s and properties files.

Revision: 2200
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-06-24 07:46:04 -0700 (Tue, 24 Jun 2008)
Log Message:
The main package will now also include the ja swc's and properties files.
-it will not include the samples, these will still be in the ja zip
bug:http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-15852
Ticket Links:
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-15852
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> okay, this may be really naive and maybe i'm missing some key piece
> of documentation, but i'm missing something regarding the file
> structure with iplanet enterprise 4.1 on solaris.
>
> in my /usr/local/netscape/suitespot there's a docs directory that is
> the default docs directory.
>
> I've created a /WEB-INF directory under docs and a /classes
> directory under that. I've placed a jay.properties file in the
> /WEB-INF/classes directory, but when I try to access that through a
> servlet instantiated bean, I get an error from the ResourceBundle
> call, telling me that it can't load that properties file.
>
> I have two questions: 1. did i build the WEB-INF directory in the
> correct place (ie - is this the standard way of working under the
> iplanet server) - this doesn't seem to be supported by the admin
> server in the sense that i can browse this directory, when i'd
> expect that iplanet would build in some basic security around the WEB-INF
> directory
>
> 2. what do i name and where do i put the properties file? should it
> be jay_en.properties? i've tried a number of different scenarios
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>
> thanks... jay
>
>
>

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