FaqEditorUTF8
I want to use UTF-8 and multibyte characters in Netbeans.
NetBeans 6.0 and later has the concept of project encoding for most projects, which allows users to create a project using different encodings. UTF-8 is the default project encoding. See How do I set or modify the character encoding for a project? for more information.
Older versions of NetBeans (5.x and earlier) use the operating system's platform encoding directly without proper support for different file encodings at the project level. This is not ideal, but there are still ways how to set NetBeans up to use encoding of your choice. Please read more at the bottom of How do I set or modify the character encoding for a project? or in How can I use UTF-8 encoding in Java source files and JavaScript files in my project? (for NetBeans 5.X and earlier).
Applies to: All NetBeans versions
Platforms: All
