java replace German umlauts

Question

I have the following problem. I am trying to replace german umlauts like ä, ö, ü in java. But it simply does not work. Her

Answer 1

Works fine when I try it, so it must be an encoding issue.

Check your system encoding. You may want to add -encoding UTF-8 to your javac compiler command line.

      -encoding encoding
         Set the source file encoding name, such as EUC-JP and UTF-8. If -encoding is not specified, the platform default converter is used.