I frequently had some long-standing problems with the console output encoding in Netbeans. Which always presented garbled non-ascii characters for me.
After deciding that it was enough, I went to search for a solution and did found a very simple one in StackOverflow. Just add -J-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 into the netbeans_default_options line of netbeans.conf file and voilà, it works! However, this make me think about it: 1. Is there a reason to not add it there by default? 2. If it can't be added there by default for some reason, can it at least be something more user-friendly and less arcane to be configured by the normal user? Victor Williams Stafusa da Silva
