This document tries to identify some useful
resources to help you in the task of Localization...
Tools for entering non-latin character sets in property files.
Java comes with a handy command-line tool (in the bin directory) called native2ascii
that will take a file in a number of different formats and convert it the Java native
format \u stuff. Very useful for taks like Kanji conversion.
Sun also provides a GUI property file translator in its JavaTM
Internationalization and Localization Toolkit 2.0 which is available here: http://java.sun.com/products/jilkit/