title: Alfresco localization encoding
body: <p>Trying to create custom types, aspects and properties for Alfresco, I followed the <a href="http://ecmarchitect.com/images/articles/alfresco-content/content-article-2ed.pdf" rel="nofollow">Alfresco Developer Series</a> guide. When I reached the <strong>localization</strong> section I found out that Alfresco does not handle UTF-8 encoding in the .properties files that you create. Greek characters are not displayed correctly in Share.</p>
  
  <p>Checking out other built-in .properties files (/opt/alfresco-4.0.e/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/messages) I noticed that in Japanese, for example, the characters are in this notation: \u3059\u3079\u3066\u306e...</p>
  
  <p>So, the question is: do I have to convert the greek words in the above mentioned notation for Share to display them correctly, or is there another -more elegant- way to do it?</p>