title: GWT internationalization of static text & special characters
body: <p>I've got some questions concerning the internationalization-workarounds for GWT.</p>
  
  <p>1) What's the best way to work with static text that has been directly written in the ui.xml-files? 
  Currently, I'm using the Messages-Interface to translate Java-generated text (which works surprisingly well for me), but our applications have an awful lot of text written directly in HTML. </p>
  
  <p>2) How do you display special characters such as the "ä" used in German? I've already set the index.html to UTF-8 and am still getting weird placeholders instead of the actual characters when accessing the application. I really don't wanna know what happens when I start to use the Chinese translations.</p>
  
  <p>3) Is there any comfortable way to let GWT generate the interface-class from an existing properties-file? I've written myself a small tool that looks good for me, but I suppose that isn't the most professional solution.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance!</p>