JDK-8167323 : Release Note: UTF-8 based Properties Files
  • Type: Sub-task
  • Component: core-libs
  • Sub-Component: java.util:i18n
  • Affected Version: 9
  • Priority: P4
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Delivered
  • OS: generic
  • CPU: generic
  • Submitted: 2016-10-06
  • Updated: 2017-09-22
  • Resolved: 2016-12-06
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JDK 9
9Resolved
Description
Properties files in UTF-8 encoding are now supported by ResourceBundle, with automatic fall back to ISO-8859-1 encoding if needed. For more detail, refer to [PropertiyResourceBundle][propbundle] class description.


[propbundle]: http://download.java.net/java/jdk9/docs/api/java/util/PropertyResourceBundle.html