Note that you give just base name to getBundle. The _cc.properties will automatically be appended. Unlike other resources, the package name is not automatically prepended.

The ResourceBundle properties file must be encoded with ISO-8859-1, not UTF-8. The fancy characters must be encoded with \uxxxx form. You can compose the file in some national encoding then use native2ascii.exe. Unfortunately, the properties file is then no longer readable by humans since all the interesting characters are \uxxxx encoded. Here is what the corresponding *.properties file looks like.

Here is a a resource Bundle with French strings

• The ResourceBundle scheme has no cleverness to deal with plurals, agreement of pronouns in gender or number, any sort of boilerplate templates with various words replaced. If you want that, you must roll your own, perhaps using {0} {1} to enclose replaceable text.
• When you ask for a resource for a particular locale, you get back the best available match, not necessarily precisely what you asked for.

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