Unicode characters in Eclipse

Question

I'm trying to print nice yin-yang from my Java program:

System.out.println("\u262f");

Everything is OK in Netbeans (default settings): both yin-yang and other stuff in English is printed correctly. What should I do to make Eclipse to do the same? With default Eclipse setting I get only "?".

I tried to change Console Encoding in Run Dialog like suggested in extracting unicode text from mysql to java, but things get even worse (more precisely, this is output: 剅䐍੓瑯瀡ഊⴱ‍਍ਿഊ奅䱌佗ഊ坡楴ഊ〠ഊഊ㼍ੇ剅䕎ഊ奯甠捡渠杯ഊ〠ഊഊ㼍� - which one is yin-yang??).

Any suggestions?

the yin-yang characters that create you problem are hardcoded in the java file, or on the database ? — David Hofmann, Jul 08 '13 at 21:43
You need to clarify your question, what excact code you execute, what you get in ecilpse, what you get in netbeans, what you expected instead, etc ... — David Hofmann, Jul 08 '13 at 21:52
System.out.println("\u262f"); (with main() etc., of course) ☯ - Netbeans ? - Eclipse — TT_, Jul 08 '13 at 21:55

David Hofmann · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-08T22:01:39.283

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In eclipse this prints the ying-yang for me

System.out.println(new String(Character.toChars(9775)));

Go to Window->Preferences->General->Workspace->TextFileEncoding, set it to UTF-8

edited Jul 08 '13 at 22:01

answered Jul 08 '13 at 21:43

David Hofmann

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The same result "?". I suppose what you suggested should work the same way as Run Dialog settings, and it does. – TT_ Jul 08 '13 at 21:49
Still "?". OK, no big deal, I guess something wrong with my Eclipse. Anyway, I'll probably abandon it (after I found out that to move Undo into Toolbar I have to install some plugin, come on...). – TT_ Jul 08 '13 at 22:07
During setting the Encoding consider to set particular OS also – Ripon Al Wasim Aug 18 '16 at 10:13

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 08 '13 at 22:01

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For change the default console enconding, add the next line in your eclipse.ini file:

-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8

answered Jul 08 '13 at 22:01

Paul Vargas

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