At work we had to read from a properties file for dummy data entries, but we have encountered encoding issues in the Turkish language. So we had come to use this way that you can read from a properties file also you can prohibit encoding issues while attempting to read it using Spring.
private Properties props = new Properties(); private File resourceFile; resourceFile = resourceLoader.getResource("classpath:/bundle/agreementdata.properties").getFile(); props.load(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(resourceFile), "UTF-8")); //to get the data from the file props.getProperty("LINENAME")