javaandroid-studioencodingutf-8syntax-error

Reputation: 393

file was loaded in the wrong encoding: 'UTF-8' in android studio

my android studio gone crazy like this please help??

Upvotes: 24

Answers (13)

Francis

Reputation: 7104

On Windows close Android Studio and delete its cache directory:

c:\Users\[user name]\AppData\Local\Google\AndroidStudio[XXXX.X]\caches

Upvotes: 8

Anoop M Maddasseri

Reputation: 10549

Just rename the project folder and reopen it in Android Studio, worked like a charm!

Invalidate Cache & Restart / Clean & Rebuild doesn't work for me. The project cache corrupted after improper s/m shutdown. Just change the project dir path renaming the project, it'll work.

Upvotes: 0

James121

Reputation: 81

I had to replace unknown characters(which I had in a comment) into known ones. The issue happened after resolving merge conflicts.

Upvotes: 1

Mussa Charles

Reputation: 849

This is an old one but I just click Invalidate Cache / Restart on file option in IDE and after restart, it works.

Version Android Studio v4.1

Upvotes: 2

Akshay Chouhan

Reputation: 335

An encoding issue can be solved by deleting all files contained in the Android Studio "caches" folder, which can be found in "C:\Users<username>.AndroidStudioX.Y\system\caches".

Make sure that to close Android Studio before deleting.

Upvotes: 34

Benny

Reputation: 2331

All you need is to remove the Android Studio settings directory, which can be found:

on Windows

C:/Users/yourusername/.AndroidStudioX.Y

on Linux:

/home/yourusername/.AndroidStudioX.Y

Close Android Studio, delete the directory, then reopen Android-Studio and open your project.

Also if it happens on a different IDE, it is the same approach.

If the issue persists, try to copy the content of your project directory into a new directory, then open the project from the new directory.

Upvotes: 3

Ashwini Salunkhe

Reputation: 230

This worked for me, I clicked on utf-8 and code is displayed in proper format.

Upvotes: 0

Harsh0021

Reputation: 372

you have to just delete the catches folder in C:/users/"your PC name"/AndroidStudio(version code). Sometimes it gets disturbed because of some reasons like you have shut down the PC in improper way so it won't get enough time to shutDown all stuff So all that errors occurs.

I think it would definitely work for you. Have a nice day!!!! :)

Upvotes: 4

Mohammed Hussein

Reputation: 1

I had the same problem and how I fixed it is that I just went to the directory where the java files for my project are located, which in my case is users/user name/AndroidStudioProjects/Project name/app/src/main/java/com/example/android/project name, and here you will find all java codes you wrote for your project just open the one making the problem with notepad and you will find your code here in the right format and perfect just copy all of it and get back to Android Studio window and delete the wrong formatted code and paste this one and wait for it to sync and that's it. If you face the same issue with XML codes just do the same thing find the directory where XML files are located.

Upvotes: 0

ulmaxy

Reputation: 870

In my case it happend after Windows died with the blue screen, here's how I fixed it:

Close Android Studio
Find a directory named .AndroidStudioX.X in C:Users/YourUsername and rename it to old.AndroidStudioX.X
Restart Android Studio and choose the renamed old.AndroidStudioX.X to import settings from.

My answer is taken from here https://stackoverflow.com/a/53476487/4277741

Upvotes: 9

user1930720

Reputation: 105

This is an old issue, but if anyone comes across this, what isn't mentioned above, but happening for me is that the original file on disk is intact java code. Android Studio is reading it like this for some reason.

Upvotes: 0