Eclipse character encoding

Question

I am using Scanner to scan a .txt document in Java. However, when I open the .txt document in Eclipse, I notice some characters are not being recognized, and they are repla

Answer 1

The file you are reading must be containing UTF-8 or some other encoding characters and when you try to print them on console then you will get some characters as �'. This is because the default console encoding is not UTF-8 in eclipse. You need to set it by going to Run Configuration -> Common -> Encoding -> Select UTF-8 from the drop down. Check below screenshot: