Hi ,
i'm trying to change the Jforum to Arabic , so i added ar_AR.properties file to config-->languages , and added it to locale.properties file , also added to the Glassfish JVM options

-Dfile.encoding=UTF8

but i'm getting the Arabic as trash as in the below screenshots , any solutions for this ?

It's hard to tell what's going on without having access to the properties file; if you email it to me I can take a look.

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I got it, but I'm having problems getting JForum to use it. Even after setting Arabic as the board default language it isn't used by JForum, and doesn't show up in my profile settings. Not sure what's going on.

In general I would say it's better to encode the language files using the \uWXYZ notation you see in Russian file, amongst others. While some files use accented characters (Portuguese, for example), those tend to cause problems.