Display special characters using System.out.println

Question

I'm having trouble sending or displaying text with special characters from my webservice to my database. On my eclipse I have set the character encoding to UTF-8 but it still doesn't let me display the characters. For example a simple print like the code below

String test ="привет"; 
System.out.println(test);

OR

String test ="привет";
String query = "insert into communication (`test`) VALUES ('"+ test +"');
PreparedStatement preparedStmt1 = con.prepareStatement(query);
preparedStmt1.executeUpdate();

The result on the console and if I send this to my database is ??????. How do I get this to display correctly on the console and hopefully in the database

Is this the eclipse console, or sh/cmd? what character set is your console set to? — atk, Jun 07 '12 at 19:11
eclipse, if by console character set you mean the settings in Windows > Preferences > WorkSpace it is set to UTF-8. Is there another way to set the console separately? — Amanni, Jun 08 '12 at 09:59

score 13 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 30 '14 at 22:12

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If you are using Eclipse, then

right click on you project.
Go to Properties
Select UTF-8 in "Text File Encoding "

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answered Nov 30 '14 at 22:12

Burhan ARAS

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Santosh · Answer 2 · 2012-06-07T14:41:38.520

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See if this works.

    PrintStream out = new PrintStream(System.out, true, "UTF-8");
    out.println(test);

For storing in DB, use following to explicitly encode the string in UTF-8

String newString = new String(test.getBytes(), "UTF8");

edited Jun 07 '12 at 14:41

answered Jun 07 '12 at 14:29

Santosh

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No, I get the same characters – Amanni Jun 07 '12 at 14:56
you must encode the string to "iso-8859-1" ex: new String(test.getBytes(), "iso-8859-1"); – oczdref Jun 10 '15 at 07:37

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 07 '12 at 14:31

Yeah, its the XXI. century and we're still struggling with things like character encoding...

My first guess is that either:

your source file encoding might be wrong (do you use build tools like Maven? It might be needed to set the source-encoding there too),
your console encoding might be wrong (are you under Windows? The default command line console is not UTF by default, its local-dependant, but with a small play in the registry you can set its encoding)
your DB encoding might be incorrect (what is the Table encoding, can you check that?)

I've set the table encoding to utf8 still the same result. As far as the encoding goes I can display special characters on when I program in android. — Amanni, Jun 07 '12 at 14:58

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 07 '12 at 14:36

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may be you need to decode your character string to ISO-8859 first and then encode it to UTF-8

answered Jun 07 '12 at 14:36

wyk

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if it is maybe, you should add it as a comment rather answer. – bharatpatel Oct 23 '20 at 13:53

Display special characters using System.out.println

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