Your problem is most likely your operating system's default file encoding here (perhaps MacRoman?). The IDE is assuming that process output is whatever your operating system's default encoding is, which is the right assumption, since that *is* what command-line utilities will output. It happens that the process you're running is outputting UTF-8 *rather than* the OS's default encoding.
Setting that as a default would be assuming that every operating system uses UTF-8 regardless of what it does - it would be wrong a lot of the time. It just happens to solve the case that whatever you're running is outputting UTF-8 in spite of what the operating system provides. That's not that uncommon, but the right solution is to *detect* that the output is UTF-8 when the IDE runs whatever it is you're running. So... what are you running? Is this project output? If so, what kind of project? Or server output of some kind? A correct fix would be to (if possible), detect what that is and that it will output UTF-8, and have the IDE open the output of that process with the right encoding. -Tim On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 6:18 PM, Victor Williams Stafusa da Silva < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- http://timboudreau.com
