As far as I know, the JDK determines how property files are understood with regard to encoding. That traditionally is an 8 bit encoding. There is also the possibility to use XML for property files, which do support UTF-8.
So it is not a NetBeans problem per se. this link might give some Insight. met vriendelijke groet Pieter van den Hombergh Op wo 2 jul 2025, 17:02 schreef <monika.novot...@centrum.cz>: > Hello, > When will NetBeans support UTF-8 encoding in forms please? > We currently use Escape Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) encoding in our > Bundle.properties resource files. But it would be ideal to use UTF-8 > encoding. > Thank you. > > Monika Novotna > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > >