lovetide wrote: If you use iReport to design your report, you can type/input or copy/paste Chinese characters directly. But if you use resource bundle to store Chinese characters, I have a experience like the following: 1. type/input or copy/paste Chinese characters directly in your .properties file #example: chinese_surname.king=金 chinese_surname.liu=刘 2. save .properties file in UTF-8 or GB18030/GBK/GB2312 or BIG5 encoding as you need 3. after you readed from .properties file, convert the encoding of result string from "ISO-8859-1" to the encoding you choosed at step 2, then, you'll get what you want I think... :laugh: Well I did steps 1 and 2 .... still doesnt work :( I put the translations directly in the properties file and saved the file with UTF-8 encoding . Also tried the "unicode" encoding that's available with notepad. Didnt work with that either. I cudnt implement the 3rd step you mentioned. Bcos I dont know what u mean by changing the encoding of the result string. how do you do that? I am attaching the jrxml here if you would like to take a look. And in the properties file I just wrote vars1=出货信æ¯å’Œå›½é™…出货 vars2=金 vars3=刘 [file name=chinese.jrxml size=8939]http://www.jasperforge.org/components/com_joomlaboard/uploaded/files/chinese.jrxml[/file]