how to solve encoding issue of text while reading from properties

Question

I am developing micro services for internal use. I have propertie file with properties like

HEAD_ROLE_KEYS=de 1ª Linha-->Área-->Equipa-Coordenadores

In java, reading that property of head_role and print. But it prints like

de 1ª Linha--> Ã�rea-->Equipa-Coordenadores

So my compare operation is failed.

Kindly help me how to get exact value in java. Thanks...

NOTE: file format is UTF-8

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 23 '18 at 10:34

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java expects property files to be ISO-8859-1 encoded

answered Oct 23 '18 at 10:34

Marc Stroebel

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 23 '18 at 10:35

Things you need to verify:

The editor last used to edit the property file saved the file as UTF-8.
Your program reads the file as UTF-8.
The console where the property file is printed supports UTF-8.
The string constant against which the property value is compared is properly encoded.

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