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user1028872
user1028872

Reputation: 359

How do I change the encoding of my jar file to manage characters such as "█▓▒ CRIT! ░░╚╡▌▌╞╗░░"?

EDITED

hey guys.

My code is using pircBot to send IRC messages to twitch.tv.

The messages include characters such as '█▓▒ CRIT! ░░╚╡▌▌╞╗░░'

Example output code: sendMessage("#twitchraidstwitch", "/me █▓▒ CRIT! ░░╚╡▌▌╞╗░░");

So These characters originally all displayed as '?' in Eclipse. They didn't work properly until I changed my window -> preferences -> text file encoding to US-ASCII. (Though I've just learned these characters aren't even ASCII.)

When I export my project to a jar and try to run in CMD, the characters are back to '?'.

How do I got about getting this to work in cmd?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5643

Answers (1)

user1028872
user1028872

Reputation: 359

Ok I got it to work.

I used setEncoding("UTF-8"); as Score_Under suggested. It didn't change anything but it didn't hurt either.

I then launched with java -Dfile.encoding="UTF-8" -jar JarFile.jar and that did the trick.

I figured it out from UTF-8 works on Eclipse but fails to work with an exported jar

Upvotes: 9

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