I have property with string that contains some special characters. After I save it to properties file I have:
BB\u0161BB=0 I don't like character represented with \u0161 . Why it can't save like character I see it on the screen and type from keyboard?
UPD What is the easiest way to read ini-file architecture file that contains special character?
That's how Properties files are defined to behave. Any other system is likely to use UTF-8 which might not be readable either.
As your character is outside the range of an ISO-8859-1 encoding, it has to use unicode instead.
You can!
Encode your file in unicode (UTF-8, for instance) using another application (Notepad++ is nice, for instance) and read your properties file like this:
File file = ... ; Properties properties = new Properties(); try (FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream(file); Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(in, StandardCharsets.UTF_8)) { properties.load(reader); } // use properties There you go, properties file in any charset that you can read and use.
You can't. From javadoc:
...the input/output stream is encoded in ISO 8859-1 character encoding. Characters that cannot be directly represented in this encoding can be written using Unicode escapes as defined in section 3.3 of The Java™ Language Specification; only a single 'u' character is allowed in an escape sequence.
Please refer to this How to use UTF-8 in resource properties with ResourceBundle
Properties files are ISO-8859-1 encoded, so characters outside of that set need to be \uXXXX escaped.
