By default, the IDE displays and saves all of your files in your system's default character encoding. This character encoding determines how the IDE interprets characters beyond the ASCII character set. You can specify character encoding at the IDE default level or for individual files.
You can also set the encoding that is used by different compiler types at compile time. When you compile a file, the IDE looks for encoding settings in the following order:
To set the character encoding for a compiler type:
To set the character encoding for a file:
To set the default character encoding for the IDE or a project:
For more information on supported encodings, visit the Sun Microsystems web page at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/intl/encoding.doc.html
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Synchronizing Source Code
Using the Import Management Tool Configuring Java Settings Configuring the Compiler |