Language characters in Resource Bundles

Hi all,
We are implementing internationalization of Portal in English and Chinese and we are using resource bundles. We found that we can paste chinese characters in the resource bundle instead of unicode characters, they are visible properly in the browser.
Is this the correct approach considering that we have lot of static data?
Thanks and Regards,
Gauri Gosavi.

Hi Gauri,
> Is this the correct approach
At least not officially. See http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Properties.html#encoding as well as http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Intl/ResourceBundles - both declare to use pure ASCII and/or Unicode Escape Sequences.
Hope it helps
Detlev

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Ok, i know there are a few ways of doing this already. The problem is that i have no idea how to use these different problem solving issues. First we have the;
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> but i don't sure if it's possible to have
> no default localization.properties file?
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[SWF] C:\ConnectedProducts\common-web\myname\bin-debug\styles\mypals_style.swf - 194,635 bytes after decompression
[SWF] C:\ConnectedProducts\common-web\myname\bin-debug\styles\mypals_style.swf - 261,589 bytes after decompression
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