Setting the default Java character encoding

Question

How do I properly set the default character encoding used by the JVM (1.5.x) programmatically?

I have read that -Dfile.encoding=whatever used to be the

Answer 1

Solve this problem in my project. Hope it helps someone.

I use LIBGDX java framework and also had this issue in my android studio project. In Mac OS encoding is correct, but in Windows 10 special characters and symbols and also russian characters show as questions like: ????? and other incorrect symbols.

1. Change in android studio project settings: File->Settings...->Editor-> File Encodings to UTF-8 in all three fields (Global Encoding, Project Encoding and Default below).

2. In any java file set:

   System.setProperty("file.encoding","UTF-8");

3. And for test print debug log:

   System.out.println("My project encoding is : "+ Charset.defaultCharset());