title: Single Curly Bracket in Properties file
body: <p>I am trying to read this text which has only a single curly brace</p>
  
  <pre><code>Y8R30j)i{sjmPXfE
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>from a .properties file using <code>MessageResources.getMessage()</code></p>
  
  <p>and am getting this exception </p>
  
  <pre><code>java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unmatched braces in the pattern.
  at java.text.MessageFormat.applyPattern(MessageFormat.java:508)
  at java.text.MessageFormat.&lt;init&gt;(MessageFormat.java:363)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I tried to escape by using</p>
  
  <pre><code>Y8R30j)i'{'sjmPXfE
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but am getting the same exception.</p>