Transifex have extended the format and allow resources to be UTF-8 encoded (see http://help.transifex.com/features/formats.html#java-propert... ) however the importer does not correctly cope with single quote characters, backslash n (newline) and several other characters being encoded when they ought to be (as per the document you referenced which I also used to begin with ;-)

If you look at the script Vivek wrote http://git.netsurf-browser.org/netsurf.git/tree/utils/split-... he clearly documents the odd importer issues which is why we called it the transifex resource format and not Java resource format ;-)