How to change default encoding in NetBeans 8.0

Question

I'm wondering if I can change default encoding in NetBeans 8.0... I searched a lot but I haven't find a way how to change the encoding in this version of NetBeans.

I have this tag in my html document: <meta charset="utf-8">

BUT! As you can see on attached image, NetBeans notice is warning me about an encoding problem.

Internal encoding declaration "utf-8" disagrees with the actual encoding of the document ("windows-1250").

I created index.html by "new file" function in NetBeans. There is UTF-8 encoding in project properties, so I think it should be UTF-8. I really don't know where that 'windows-1250' came from!!

Where I can find some option to change default encoding or even current file encoding in NetBeans 8.0?

Thank you in advance...

Answer 1

Answer here worked well for me on Netbeans 7.3 Stackoverflow Answer

Right click on the project name and click on properties. Sources tab -> Encoding and change it to whatever you need. In my case i needed Windows 1252 encoding.

Answer 2

Solution given by Danny

Navigate to <Netbeans installation directory>/etc and open the netbeans.conf file.

Add -J-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 at the end of the line that starts with netbeans_default_options (make sure to include the leading space).

Restart Netbeans and it should be in UTF-8

To verify go to help -> about and check System: Windows Vista version 6.0 running on x86; UTF-8; nl_NL (nb)

Answer 3

I had the problem with a cyrillic characters (russian and ukranian letters) in netbeans 8.1 for Ubuntu 14.04. I have fixed problem like @Rex Wagenius adviced + I had to change a font of netbeans (in main menu: Tools -> Option -> Fonts&Colors -> Syntax tab -> Font changed from Courier to Serif 20). Hope this answer will be helpful for some users with the same problem.