Setting the default Java character encoding

Question

How do I properly set the default character encoding used by the JVM (1.5.x) programmatically?

I have read that -Dfile.encoding=whatever used to be the

Answer 1

My team encountered the same issue in machines with Windows.. then managed to resolve it in two ways:

a) Set enviroment variable (even in Windows system preferences)

JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS
-Dfile.encoding=UTF8

b) Introduce following snippet to your pom.xml:

 -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 

WITHIN

 
 -Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=8001
 -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8