Displaying chess pieces with unicode in eclipse using java

Question

Im just trying to display some unicode chess symbols in eclipse using java, however it just prints out the random rectangles, and unless chess pieces have taken a radical ch

Answer 1

I tried your code and it does work correctly on my Linux. Tried it from the bare shell and from Eclipse. This is not a Java problem but a console charset problem. You have to look into the encoding your console accepts and make sure it is UTF8. Eclipse shouldn't factor in that.