Printing Unicode from Scala interpreter

Question

When using the scala interpreter (i.e. running the command \'scala\' on the commandline), I am not able to print unicode characters correctly. Of course a-z, A-Z, etc. are p

Answer 1

For Windows in command line (cmd) print:

1. set JAVA_OPTS="-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8"
2. chcp 65001

Item 2 means UTF-8

If you don't want everytime print "chcp 65001", you can change/add value in Windows Registry like this:

1. Run command regedit
2. find record [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor]
3. New => String value
4. Name = "AutoRun", Data = "chcp 65001" (without quotes)

(see https://superuser.com/a/482117/454417)

I use Windows 10 and scala 2.11.8