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quiet-ranger
quiet-ranger

Reputation: 508

Eclipse STS console fails to display some UTF-8 chars

I am using Spring Tool Suite v4.13.1, a customisation of Eclipse 3.18.

I have the following code:

NumberFormat fChina = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance(Locale.SIMPLIFIED_CHINESE);
NumberFormat fFrance = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance(Locale.FRENCH);
System.out.println("French: " + fFrance.format(123456.78));
System.out.println("China:  " + fChina.format(123456.78));

And the output I see on the console is:

French: 123 456,78 ¤
China: ¥123,456.78

So, the Chinese currency character appears correctly but the € symbol does not.

In trying to solve this I have included UTF-8 encoding in the run configuration like so:

java -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -classpath /home/.../target com.example.Currencies

I have also changed the font used by the Terminal to FreeMono Regular but that did not make any difference.

I have read many postings related to UTF-8 but given that I can see the correct Chinese currency char, I think that might not be the right path. Yet, I am at a loss as to why this widely used character would not display correctly.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 440

Answers (1)

greg-449
greg-449

Reputation: 111217

¤ is Unicode U+00A4 - Currency Symbol.

The locale for France should be Locale.FRANCE, not Locale.FRENCH.

Locale.FRENCH covers anywhere that speaks French so the generic currency symbol is used. Locale.FRANCE will give you the Euro.

Upvotes: 1

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