Viewing Unicode characters in the Eclipse console.

Problem:

You want to display Japanese, Chinese, or other Unicode characters in the Eclipse console.

Solution:

By default the eclipse console does not handle Unicode.  All Unicode characters in the Eclipse console are replaced by question marks. Luckily it is a simple matter to get Unicode characters to display. You will need to make two simple modifications to the run dialog.

1. Open the Run Dialog.  
2. Click on the second tab, "Arguments"
3. Enter "-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8" in the second text area title VM arguments.  
4. Click on the "Common" tab.
5. Click on "Other" under "Console Encoding"
6. Select "UTF-8" from the drop down.
7. Apply and run.