Spring boot application.properties how to read Japanese or Katakana character

Question

Following is my property inside the spring boot application.properties file

agent.managementId=こんにちは

When I am trying to read like

@Value("${agent.managementId}")
String tempVal;

Then I am getting the garbage value like "ã“ã‚“ã«ã¡ã¯"

how can I read that value as is?

the value inside the application.properties file

agent.managementId=こんにちは

Note :- if I change the text in ASCII then it is working but I don't want to convert it into ASCII.

Try to check [this question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37436927/utf-8-encoding-of-application-properties-attributes-in-spring-boot). — Ricky Sixx, Feb 12 '21 at 07:22
@Riccardoi yes, I tried but they are also suggesting convert into ASCII — Ganesh Gudghe, Feb 12 '21 at 07:25

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 15 '21 at 11:37

I resolved it by renaming application.property because as per

Spring Boot default properties encoding change?

Apparently, properties loaded by Spring Boot's ConfigFileApplicationListener are encoded in ISO 8859-1 character encoding, which is by design and according to format specification.

added

@PropertySource(value = "file:app.properties", encoding = "UTF-8")

and its working fine

Spring boot application.properties how to read Japanese or Katakana character

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