Intellij Idea incorrect encoding in console output

Question

It seems to be really crazy, but I can't do anything with broken encoding in console of my intellij idea.

Things I made to overcome this:

1. Set -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 and -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 in both idea.exe.vmoptions and idea64.exe.vmoptions (I use 64 bit version though).
2. Added -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 and -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 to run/debug configuration of my application.
3. Changed Settings > Editor > File encodings IDE Encoding/Project Encoding/Default encoding for property files to UTF-8.

Having all this done there is still no luck and symbols are not shown correctly in the console. I tried to debug java.io.PrintStream#println(java.lang.String) method and found out that System.out.textOut.out.se.cs equals to windows-1251. No idea where this value is coming from.

This issue have been bothering me for a long period of time and I was unable to find anything in the web that could help me.

Thanks in advance for help.

Answer 1

My theory is that your java class file are using "windows-1251" encoding, and you need to set it "UTF-8".

looks at the screenshots below.

To reset all files encoding, you can manually edit encodings.xml. You can change the default file encoding in settings dialog.

Answer 2

In my case examining System.out.textOut.out.se.cs in debug hinted that IDEA picked up maven surefire arguments for every JUnit Run Configuration:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
        <!-- force 7-bit default encoding to ensure that nothing depends on it -->
        <argLine>-Dfile.encoding=ASCII</argLine>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

I've resolved this by adding -Didea.maven.surefire.disable.argLine=true to idea64.exe.vmoptions file.

See also https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/configuring-output-encoding.html.

Answer 3

try

-Dconsole.encoding=UTF-8

instead of

-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8