How to escape curly braces in my properties file which is fetched using the ResourceBundle API

Question

In properties file I am having a key=A: {{0}, {1}}, B: {{2}, {3}} . I am expecting a string "A: {0, 1}, B: {1, 2}" . The numbers inside the curly braces are parsing. How can I include the character '{' without binding to any value? I also tried by escaping the character like this "//{". Even I couldn't get the expected result. An error java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: can't parse argument number 0, 1 \\ occurs.

Answer 1

key=A: '{'{0}, {1}'}', B: '{'{2}, {3}'}'

Answer 2

just run the properties file through native2ascii tool that comes with the JDK. it will do the work for you. Or better use the JRCEditor