How to use Special Chars in Java/Eclipse

It can be solved by setting encoding in eclipse:

1st way:

At the menu select File–>Properties and then at the “Text file encoding” section: Select Other radio, Select UTF-8 from combo -> Lastly click OK button

2nd way:

Right click on specific file (say Test.java) -> Properties. In Text file encoding section: Select Other radio, Select UTF-8 from combo -> Lastly click OK button

3rd way:

If you want to make this change for all your project go at Window–>Preferences–> General–> Workspace . In Text file encoding section: Select Other radio, Select UTF-8 from combo -> Lastly click OK button

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/200691/how-to-use-special-chars-in-java-eclipse

What’s the difference between encoding and charset?

Every encoding has a particular charset associated with it, but there can be more than one encoding for a given charset. A charset is simply what it sounds like, a set of characters. There are a large number of charsets, including many that are intended for particular scripts or languages.

However, we are well along the way in the transition to Unicode, which includes a character set capable of representing almost all the world’s scripts. However, there are multiple encodings for Unicode. An encoding is a way of mapping a string of characters to a string of bytes. Examples of Unicode encodings include UTF-8, UTF-16 BE, and UTF-16 LE . Each of these has advantages for particular applications or machine architectures.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2281646/whats-the-difference-between-encoding-and-charset