Special characters are input wrongly

Question

I'm having a queer issue. I have this code in Java:

Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.print("Enter word: ");
String word = keyboard.nextLine();
System.out.println(word);

However, for special characters, the scanner class seems to be going wrong. For example, if I type in ħabel I get Ä§abel printed. Eclipse's console output is set as UTF-8, sure of that, so I think it's coming from the input. I haven't found any encoding options in the Scanner class really and funnily googling about didn't give solutions neither. How could this be solved?

Thanks!

What is the special character you used? – kosa Feb 02 '12 at 15:49 — kosa, Feb 02 '12 at 15:49

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 02 '12 at 15:27

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When you set up a Scanner on a bare InputStream, it reads using the default charset (which for you seems to be ASCII). If you want to specify the charset, do this:

Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(new InputStreamReader(
                    System.in, Charset.forName("UTF-8")));

answered Feb 02 '12 at 15:27

Russell Zahniser

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This question might help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8669056/unicode-input-in-a-console-application-in-java – Russell Zahniser Feb 02 '12 at 16:02
As pointed out in the question above, console input in Windows doesn't seem to work on special characters. I reverted to reading the input from a file. Thanks Russel – Krt_Malta Feb 03 '12 at 07:57

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 02 '12 at 16:04

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I believe Russel answer is correct, but it seems that your input charset is not UTF-8 Try this: Scanner s= new Scanner(new InputStreamReader(System.in,Charset.defaultCharset()));

answered Feb 02 '12 at 16:04

wmz

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this answer is the best solution – Mohammed Housseyn Taleb Dec 25 '18 at 10:06

Special characters are input wrongly

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