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I had a problem similar to this one: Android Studio 1.2 - Project encoding mismatches by default

The Android Studio project & gradle encoding is now set to windows-1252 instead of UTF-8.

Is there any reason I should be using one of these over the other?

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Since gradle and Android studio both use UTF-8, you should consider using that. It's a good encoding too as it's based on unicode charset.

There has also been some talk on whether they should enforce UTF-8 or not in the future, so you should start changing to UTF-8 asap :)

You can change your encoding as follows below.

Click File -> Settings (or click Ctrl + Alt + S) and find File Encodings in your Androd Studio. See the image below as a reference.

Now you have three options

  • change UTF-8 to match other encoding
  • or change project encoding to match UTF-8 since both Gradle and Android Lint use this (recommended)
  • Ignore the warning

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(source: shrani.si)

You can also see the current encoding of your file at the bottom right corner of Android studio. You can also change it there. See the image below.

IDE Encoding

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Localization to numerous languages requires Unicode, so use UTF-8.

BTW, it is possible that due to this reasoning nobody never tested the development environment with a non-Unicode encoding.

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