Java problems with UTF-8 in different OS

Issue

I'm programing with other people an application to college homework, and sometime we use non-english characters in comments or in Strings displayed in the views. The problem is that everyone of use is using a different OS and sometimes different IDE's to program.

Concretely, one is using MacOS, another Windows7, and another and me Ubuntu Linux. Furthermore, all of them use Eclipse and I use gedit. We have no idea if Eclipse or gedit are configurable to work propertly with UTF8 bussiness, at least I don't found nothing for mine.

The fact is that what I write with non-english characters appears in Windows & MacOS virtual machines with strange symbols and vice-versa , and sometimes, what my non-linux friends write provokes compilation warnings like this: warning: unmappable character for encoding UTF8.

Do you have any Idea to solve this? It is not really urgent but it will be a help.

Thank you.

Solution

Not sure about gedit, but you can certainly configure eclipse to use whatever encoding you like for source code. It's part of the project properties (and saved in the .settings directory within the project).

Answered By - Michael Borgwardt