It is in properties format.
I have debugged the source, and in RenderKitImpl.java, i found this:
if (characterEncoding == null) {
characterEncoding = RIConstants.CHAR_ENCODING;
}
At this point, characterEncoding is UTF-8. Yet, on the page, characters are gibberish.
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