If you are using UTF-8 with your Spring web app, then I would suggest using the following configurations.

In web.xml add:

<jsp-config>
    <jsp-property-group>
        <url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern>
        <page-encoding>UTF-8</page-encoding>
    </jsp-property-group>
</jsp-config>

(so that you don’t have to add <%@ page pageEncoding="utf-8" %> to every jsp file) and

<filter>
    <!-- This filter has to come before other filters. -->
    <filter-name>characterEncodingFilter</filter-name>
    <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter</filter-class>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>encoding</param-name>
        <param-value>UTF-8</param-value>
    </init-param>
</filter>

<filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>characterEncodingFilter</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

And if you are using ResourceBundleMessageSource you need to set defaultEncoding in you Spring Servlet config:

<bean id="messageSource" class="org.springframework.context.support.ResourceBundleMessageSource">
    <property name="basename" value="messages" />
    <property name="defaultEncoding" value="UTF-8" />
</bean>

Note that if you are not using JDK 1.6 or above you have to use ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource instead of ResourceBundleMessageSource to be able to set defaultEncoding.

Now, if you remember to save all files using UTF-8, you should be fine.

I’m having this issue with Firefox 12.0 on Mac OS X 10.7.4 using the following code:

import javax.swing.*;

public class AppletWithMenuBar extends JApplet {
	public void init() {
		JMenuBar menuBar = new JMenuBar();

		JMenu fileMenu = menuBar.add(new JMenu("File"));
		fileMenu.add(new JMenuItem("New"));
		fileMenu.add(new JMenuItem("Open"));
		fileMenu.add(new JMenuItem("Save"));

		JMenu editMenu = menuBar.add(new JMenu("Edit"));
		editMenu.add(new JMenuItem("Cut"));
		editMenu.add(new JMenuItem("Copy"));
		editMenu.add(new JMenuItem("Paste"));

		setJMenuBar(menuBar);
	}
}

and

<applet code="AppletWithMenuBar.class" width="400" height="100"></applet>

Whenever I select an item from the “Edit” menu the “File” menu gets highlighted.

Check it out for yourself here or have a look at the videos below.

This issue is also discussed here.