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• For Western Europeans it's quite comfortable to be able to edit .properties files in ISO-8859-1 aka Latin-1.
• The 1st German .properties file, that I came across, was actually written using '\u00HH' for the German umlauts, with HH being the hexadecimal digits of the Latin-1 encoding of the character.
  I looked up the Wikipedia article on Unicode, and I learned that this is a perfectly legal encoding of the Latin-1 character set, i.e. the 1st 256 characters of Latin-1 and Unicode (resp. its "BMP") are the same.
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