Question

On Mac OS X 10.5 with Java 1.5, I have this code snippet.

public static void main(String[] args) {
    String name = "Алексей";
    System.out.println("name = " + name);
}

The output is:

name = ???????

I expected to see:

name = Алексей

How can I make this happen?

Answer 1

Thanks to all the helpful ideas.

It turns out the key to my problem was this sentence:

On Mac OS X 10.5 with Java 1.5, I have this code snippet

The IDE I’m using, IntelliJ IDEA was explicitly setting the file encoding to MacRoman. By changing the encoding for the project to UTF-8, the problem was solved without any code changes.