Java - Russian Encoding

Question

I'm trying to print Russian text like the below example but got ? characters. I have tried multiple "encodings" but the same result.

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        String t = "тест";
        System.out.println("test: " + t);
    }

Output: test: ????

How can I do right encoding?

I did already (Charset.defaultCharset()) but the same result ? — Hrant Vardanyan, Sep 02 '15 at 12:33
Possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6017004/how-to-convert-a-string-of-russian-cyrillic-letters — Jozef Chocholacek, Sep 02 '15 at 12:39
intellij idea, but i think the reason isnt with IDE because im trying to write the text in a file and the same ??????. — Hrant Vardanyan, Sep 02 '15 at 12:39
@RealSkeptic likely CP1251 is Java default encoding, but CP866 is actually used for console output (Windows defaults). Displaying text in Russia is not that easy! — Tagir Valeev, Sep 02 '15 at 12:49
Just try http://stackoverflow.com/questions/499010/java-how-to-determine-the-correct-charset-encoding-of-a-stream — SaviNuclear, Sep 02 '15 at 12:50
Your code works fine here, on a French Mac, in IntelliJ. Make sure the encoding used to compile your sources, in IntelliJ, is UTF8. You should see UTF8 when the source file is opened, at the bottom-right corner of IntelliJ. In the IntelliJ preferences, under Editor - File encodings, make sure the IDE encoding and the project encoding is also UTF8. — JB Nizet, Sep 02 '15 at 13:24

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 02 '15 at 13:19

The characters that you see couldn't be decoded properly on the device displaying them. It could be many reasons, but the main cause is the device is using another encoding scheme. To properly encode character stream use the following code that writes to the file.

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    OutputStreamWriter fileWriter = new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream("myFile.txt"), "windows-1251");

    String t = "тест";
    fileWriter.write("test: " + t);
}

Java - Russian Encoding

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