Utf-8 from resource bundle?

I've been looking at many resources and see this is a common problem but still haven't found solution to desplaying unicode data.
Page starts with <%@page pageEncoding="utf-8" contentType="text/html; charset=utf-8" %> and has <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> in the html head tag.
Output from all database derived unicode characters look fine. However, output from resource bundle is garbled. i.e. "Espa�ol" comes back as "EspaÃ±ol".
Using Tomcat 5 where I set URIEncoding="UTF-8" in the Connector tag.
Also have a catch all filter setting.
request.setCharacterEncoding("utf-8");
response.setCharacterEncoding("utf-8");
and I've duplicated the settings in the jsf file.
I'd really appreciate any ideas what I'm doing wrong or what more I need to add?

ResourceBundle Properties uses java.util.properties. If you look closely in
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/util/Properties.html
you can see it is not using UTF-8, but only ISO 8859-1.
There is no easy solution for this problem.
If you are using JSE 5.0 you can view sun newletter
http://java.sun.com/developer/JDCTechTips/2005/tt1018.html
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