I have a .properties file I want to load in a Java Properties object. The file contains some paths. In order to be able to load the properties file without getting a java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Malformed \uxxxx encoding. when loading the properties from the file with the method Properties.load(), I need to use the escape character '\' in the path.

So my path looks like: C:\\Users\\Harald\\Folder1\\Version1\\Folder2. And it works this way, no exception is thrown.

The problem is that I can't explain to my user (because this path can be changed by the user!) that he needs to use double '\' in the path.

Does anybody knows a work-around for this problem? Thanks!

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