Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hi,
i have to display JSF page in Arabic language
I have stored properties file in arabic using UTF-8 character encoding
and save properties file for eg messages_ar.properties

But Jsf page is displaying garbage charaters in place of arabic value
My JSF page contains:

<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" %>

meta tag
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

and even set encoding on html as UTF-8
but still no effect

Please help me out its urgent

Thanks
akashikha