对于当前(2021-2)Java版本，仍然有旧的ISO-8859-1函数utils.Properties#load。

如果您使用属性。装载时必须使用ISO-8859-1。 如果使用ResourceBundle，那么UTF-8应该没问题。

请允许我引用官方文件。

PropertyResourceBundle

PropertyResourceBundle can be constructed either from an InputStream or a Reader, which represents a property file. Constructing a PropertyResourceBundle instance from an InputStream requires that the input stream be encoded in UTF-8. By default, if a MalformedInputException or an UnmappableCharacterException occurs on reading the input stream, then the PropertyResourceBundle instance resets to the state before the exception, re-reads the input stream in ISO-8859-1, and continues reading. If the system property java.util.PropertyResourceBundle.encoding is set to either "ISO-8859-1" or "UTF-8", the input stream is solely read in that encoding, and throws the exception if it encounters an invalid sequence. If "ISO-8859-1" is specified, characters that cannot be represented in ISO-8859-1 encoding must be represented by Unicode Escapes as defined in section 3.3 of The Java™ Language Specification whereas the other constructor which takes a Reader does not have that limitation. Other encoding values are ignored for this system property. The system property is read and evaluated when initializing this class. Changing or removing the property has no effect after the initialization.

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/14/docs/api/java.base/java/util/PropertyResourceBundle.html

属性#负载

从输入字节流中读取属性列表(键和元素对)。输入流采用load(Reader)中指定的简单的面向行的格式，并假定使用ISO 8859-1字符编码;即每个字节是一个拉丁字符。非拉丁字符1和某些特殊字符使用Java™语言规范3.3节中定义的Unicode转义符在键和元素中表示。

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/14/docs/api/java.base/java/util/Properties.html加载(java.io.InputStream)

注意:在Java <= 8 Java属性文件应该编码在ISO 8859-1!

ISO 8859-1字符编码。 不能直接输入的字符 用这种编码表示可以 使用Unicode转义符编写;只有 允许输入一个“u”字符 转义序列。

Java文档

如果你真的想这样做:看看: Eclipse中的Java属性UTF-8编码——有一些代码示例

因为Java 9:属性文件是用UTF-8编码的，所以应该没有问题/疑问

在Java SE 9中，属性文件以UTF-8编码方式加载。在以前的版本中，ISO-8859-1编码用于加载属性资源包。

(https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/intl/internationalization -改进- jdk 9. - htm # jsint guid - 9 - dcdb41c a989 - 4220 - 8140 - dbfb844a0fca)

这个问题终于在Java 9中得到了解决: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/intl/internationalization-enhancements-jdk-9

属性文件的默认编码现在是UTF-8。

大多数现有属性文件不应受到影响:UTF-8和 ISO-8859-1对ASCII字符有相同的编码 人类可读的非ascii ISO-8859-1编码不是有效的UTF-8。如果一个 检测到无效的UTF-8字节序列，Java运行时 自动重新读取ISO-8859-1中的文件。

package com.varaneckas.utils;  

import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;  
import java.util.Enumeration;  
import java.util.PropertyResourceBundle;  
import java.util.ResourceBundle;  

/** 
 * UTF-8 friendly ResourceBundle support 
 *  
 * Utility that allows having multi-byte characters inside java .property files. 
 * It removes the need for Sun's native2ascii application, you can simply have 
 * UTF-8 encoded editable .property files. 
 *  
 * Use:  
 * ResourceBundle bundle = Utf8ResourceBundle.getBundle("bundle_name"); 
 *  
 * @author Tomas Varaneckas <tomas.varaneckas@gmail.com> 
 */  
public abstract class Utf8ResourceBundle {  

    /** 
     * Gets the unicode friendly resource bundle 
     *  
     * @param baseName 
     * @see ResourceBundle#getBundle(String) 
     * @return Unicode friendly resource bundle 
     */  
    public static final ResourceBundle getBundle(final String baseName) {  
        return createUtf8PropertyResourceBundle(  
                ResourceBundle.getBundle(baseName));  
    }  

    /** 
     * Creates unicode friendly {@link PropertyResourceBundle} if possible. 
     *  
     * @param bundle  
     * @return Unicode friendly property resource bundle 
     */  
    private static ResourceBundle createUtf8PropertyResourceBundle(  
            final ResourceBundle bundle) {  
        if (!(bundle instanceof PropertyResourceBundle)) {  
            return bundle;  
        }  
        return new Utf8PropertyResourceBundle((PropertyResourceBundle) bundle);  
    }  

    /** 
     * Resource Bundle that does the hard work 
     */  
    private static class Utf8PropertyResourceBundle extends ResourceBundle {  

        /** 
         * Bundle with unicode data 
         */  
        private final PropertyResourceBundle bundle;  

        /** 
         * Initializing constructor 
         *  
         * @param bundle 
         */  
        private Utf8PropertyResourceBundle(final PropertyResourceBundle bundle) {  
            this.bundle = bundle;  
        }  

        @Override  
        @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")  
        public Enumeration getKeys() {  
            return bundle.getKeys();  
        }  

        @Override  
        protected Object handleGetObject(final String key) {  
            final String value = bundle.getString(key);  
            if (value == null)  
                return null;  
            try {  
                return new String(value.getBytes("ISO-8859-1"), "UTF-8");  
            } catch (final UnsupportedEncodingException e) {  
                throw new RuntimeException("Encoding not supported", e);  
            }  
        }  
    }  
}  

下面是一个Java 7解决方案，它使用了Guava出色的支持库和try-with-resources结构。它使用UTF-8读取和写入属性文件，以获得最简单的整体体验。

读取一个UTF-8属性文件:

File file =  new File("/path/to/example.properties");

// Create an empty set of properties
Properties properties = new Properties();

if (file.exists()) {

  // Use a UTF-8 reader from Guava
  try (Reader reader = Files.newReader(file, Charsets.UTF_8)) {
    properties.load(reader);
  } catch (IOException e) {
    // Do something
  }
}

用UTF-8格式写一个属性文件:

File file =  new File("/path/to/example.properties");

// Use a UTF-8 writer from Guava
try (Writer writer = Files.newWriter(file, Charsets.UTF_8)) {
  properties.store(writer, "Your title here");
  writer.flush();
} catch (IOException e) {
  // Do something
}

我尝试使用Rod提供的方法，但考虑到BalusC关注的是不要在所有应用程序中重复相同的工作，并附带了这个类:

import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.util.Locale;
import java.util.ResourceBundle;

public class MyResourceBundle {

    // feature variables
    private ResourceBundle bundle;
    private String fileEncoding;

    public MyResourceBundle(Locale locale, String fileEncoding){
        this.bundle = ResourceBundle.getBundle("com.app.Bundle", locale);
        this.fileEncoding = fileEncoding;
    }

    public MyResourceBundle(Locale locale){
        this(locale, "UTF-8");
    }

    public String getString(String key){
        String value = bundle.getString(key); 
        try {
            return new String(value.getBytes("ISO-8859-1"), fileEncoding);
        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
            return value;
        }
    }
}

使用它的方式与常规的ResourceBundle使用非常相似:

private MyResourceBundle labels = new MyResourceBundle("es", "UTF-8");
String label = labels.getString(key)

或者你可以使用默认使用UTF-8的替代构造函数:

private MyResourceBundle labels = new MyResourceBundle("es");