Does the Scala compiler work with UTF-8 encoded source files?

Question

I have a very simple bit of Scala code

 var str = \"≤\"
 for( ch <- str ) { printf(\"%d, %x\", ch.toInt, ch.toInt) ; println  }
 println
 str = \"\\u2264         


        

Answer 1

Yes Scala fully supports UTF-8.

I can't reproduce your results. MacOS X, Java 7, Scala 2.10.4.

Check the file encoding of your system:

scala> System.getProperty("file.encoding")
res0: String = UTF-8

Add this line to your .bashrc . This might fix the problem in some *nix environments.

export JAVA_OPTS='-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8'

Sometimes the IDE is set to the wrong file encoding. You could check this also.