How can I open files containing accents in Java?

Question

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Hello, We have a requirement to parse data sent from users all over the world. Our Linux systems have a de

Answer 1

The Java system property file.encoding should match the console's character encoding. The property must be set when starting java on the command-line:

java -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 …

Normally this happens automatically, because the console encoding is usually the platform default encoding, and Java will use the platform default encoding if you don't specify one explicitly.