Originally posted by Nuwan Priyadarshana:
I have use notepad to create my properties file, when I save there is option in notepad to select Encoding and I am select as UTF-8. This is the way I have done.
If your properties file is in the XML format then you can use any encoding you like, although UTF-8 is almost always the best choice.
If your properties file is in the original text format, then its encoding MUST be ISO-8859-1. In this case you can put in the Unicode escapes manually (which you don't like to do) or use the "native2ascii" tool, as Jim Yingst already suggested.
Now, I know you didn't follow the link he posted, because it's broken and you didn't say anything about that.
Here is the correct link. If you want to know how to solve the problem, the answer is there for you to read.