Strange behavior: Java escape euro sign

Question

With the following code:

    System.out.println("\"1. \u20ac\"");
    System.out.println("\"2. Euro sign \u20ac\"");
    System.out.println("\"3. Eurovalue +1,25\u20ac\"");

I get following results:

    "1. €"
    "2. Euro sign €"
    "3. Eurovalue +1,25?€"

Why is there a question mark '?' on row 3. just before the euro (€) sign?

Could someone explain what I am doing wrong? My environment is Windows 7 Eclipse 3.1 with Jre build 1.6.0_18-ea-b05

Answer 1

It runs fine :)

Answer 2

I have executed the code and I got your desired output fine. as below "1. €" "2. Euro sign €" "3. Eurovalue +1,25€"

Since you are getting the wierd output it might be the language setting at your local machine locale settings, That might help you

Answer 3

I think I solved it.

In Eclipse there is encoding cp1252 for the java file. It looks the same as ISO-8859-1 but at runtime the result is different. By configuring file encoding to cp1252 it works again.

Really scary :)