Netbeans unicode problems

Question

I am switching to Netbeans for php programming (I currently use gedit).

Some characters from the original source code ( à, á, é, è, etc.) are not shown in Netbeans, regardless of the fount used, and a little quotation mark is shown instead. Those files are shown perfectly in both gedit and firefox.

If I modify the file in Netbeans, charaters are shown incorrectly in gedit and firefox. If I add one of the "problematic" characters, these new characters are shown perfectly in netbeans and gedit BUT NOT in firefox (even if html headers are not modified).

I tried adding:

-J-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 and -J-Dfile.encoding=ISO-8859-1 to netbeans_default_options

on /etc/netbeans.conf with no result.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Use Unicode character escape sequences in the source code. Since they are composed entirely of ASCII characters, they will display uniformly in whatever text editor you use.

Answer 2

NetBeans FAQ: How do I set or modify the character encoding for a project?

(Right click project, change the encoding from the properties menu.)

Looks like this needs to be done per-project. (Though XML files can specify their own encoding if they wish.)