I am facing actually two issues. 1) character encoding issue, and 2) Updates to properties file not showing for some reason.
I have several properties files for several languages containing different label messages.
Ex. project-labels_es.properties, and so on...
I am having issues with one as it is not displaying the correct character (UTF-8). The file is encoded correctly with UTF-8 but in browser it is showing ? instead of the correct symbol. While trying to work on this issue I have made some changes to the .properties file in question but I am unable to see the changes in UI. It is still displaying the original messages and not the updated ones. I have tried HAC > Platform> Update (with localization as well as specific project checked) and still nothing. I have also tried an ant clean all and again tried updating but still not able to see updated label messages.
I don't really want to re-initialize but thinking this may be my last thing to try.