Why is ¿ displayed different in Windows vs Linux even when using UTF-8?

Question

Why is the following displayed different in Linux vs Windows?

System.out.println(new String(\"¿\".getBytes(\"UTF-8\"), \"UTF-8\"));

in Wind

Answer 1

Check what encoding your linux terminal has.

For gnome-terminal in ubuntu - go to the "Terminal" menu and select "Set Character Encoding".

For putty, Configuration -> Window -> Translation -> UTF-8 (and if that doesn't work, see this post).