Unmappable character for encoding UTF-8 error

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I m getting a compile error at the following method   public static boolean isValidPasswd String passwd        String reg           0-9        a-z        A-Z                amp            -         s      8 24         return Pattern matches reg  passwd        at Utility java  76 74  unmappable character for  enoding UTF-8  74th character is        How can I fix this  Thanks

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I observed this issue while using Eclipse  I needed to add encoding in my pom xml file and it resolved  http   ctrlaltsolve blogspot in 2015 11 encoding-properties-in-maven html

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The Java compiler assumes that your input is UTF-8 encoded  either because you specified it to be or because it s your platform default encoding   However  the data in your  java files is not actually encoded in UTF-8  The problem is probably the    character  Make sure your editor  or IDE  of choice actually safes its file in UTF-8 encoding

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The compiler is using the UTF-8 character encoding to read your source file  But the file must have been written by an editor using a different encoding  Open your file in an editor set to the UTF-8 encoding  fix the quote mark  and save it again   Alternatively  you can find the Unicode point for the character and use a Unicode escape in the source code  For example  the character A can be replaced with the Unicode escape  u0041   By the way  you don t need to use the begin- and end-line anchors   and   when using the matches   method  The entire sequence must be matched by the regular expression when using the matches   method  The anchors are only useful with the find   method

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error  unmappable character for encoding UTF-8  means  java has found a character which is not representing in UTF-8  Hence open the file in an editor and set the character encoding to UTF-8  You should be able to find a  character which is not represented in UTF-8 Take off this character and recompile

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In eclipse try to go to file properties  Alt Enter  and change the Resource  rarr   Text File encoding   rarr  Other to UTF-8  Reopen the file and check there will be junk character somewhere in the string file  Remove it  Save the file   Change the encoding Resource  rarr   Text File encoding  back to Default   Compile and deploy the code

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I m in the process of setting up a CI build server on a Linux box for a legacy system started in 2000   There is a section that generates a PDF that contains non-UTF8 characters   We are in the final steps of a release  so I cannot replace the characters giving me grief  yet for Dilbertesque reasons  I cannot wait a week to solve this issue after the release   Fortunately  the  javac  command in Ant has an  encoding  parameter     lt javac destdir    classes dir   classpathref  production-classpath  debug  on       includeantruntime  false  source    java level   target    java level         encoding  iso-8859-1  gt         lt src path    production dir     gt    lt  javac gt

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You have encoding problem with your sourcecode file  It is maybe ISO-8859-1 encoded  but the compiler was set to use UTF-8  This will results in errors when using characters  which will not have the same bytes representation in UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1  This will happen to all characters which are not part of ASCII  for example    NOT SIGN   You can simulate this with the following program  It just uses your line of source code and generates a ISO-8859-1 byte array and decode this  wrong  with UTF-8 encoding  You can see at which position the line gets corrupted  I added 2 spaces at your source code to fit position 74 to fit this to    NOT SIGN  which is the only character  which will generate different bytes in ISO-8859-1 encoding and UTF-8 encoding  I guess this will match indentation with the real source file    String reg          String reg            0-9        a-z        A-Z                amp            -         s      8 24         String corrupt new String reg getBytes  ISO-8859-1    UTF-8     System out println corrupt      corrupt charAt 74     System out println reg      reg charAt 74           which results in the following output  messed up because of markup       String reg          0-9       a-z       A-Z               amp          -        s      8 24             String reg          0-9       a-z       A-Z               amp           -        s      8 24           See  live  at https   ideone com ShZnB  To fix this  save the source files with UTF-8 encoding

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For IntelliJ users  this is pretty easy once you find out what the original encoding was   You can select the encoding from the bottom right corner of your Window  you will be prompted with a dialog box saying      The encoding you ve chosen    encoding type    may change the contents   of   Your file    Do you want to reload the file from disk or convert   the text and save in the new encoding    So if you happen to have a few characters saved in some odd encoding  what you should do is first select  Reload  to load the file all in the encoding of the bad characters   For me this turned the   characters into their proper value   IntelliJ can tell if you most likely did not pick the right encoding and will warn you   Revert back and try again   Once you can see the bad characters go away  change the encoding select box in the bottom right corner back to the format you originally intended  if you are Googling this error message  that will likely be UTF-8    This time select the   Convert  button on the dialog   For me  I needed to reload as  windows-1252   then convert back to  UTF-8    The offending characters were single quotes      and      likely pasted in from a Word doc  or e-mail  with the wrong encoding  and the above actions will convert them to UTF-8

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The following compiles for me   class E     String s           0-9        a-z        A-Z                amp            -         s      8 24         See

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Thanks Michael Konietzka  https   stackoverflow com a 4996583 1019307  for your answer   I did this in Eclipse   STS   Preferences  gt  General  gt  Content Types  gt  Selected  Text        which contains all types such as CSS  Java Source Files       Added  UTF-8  to the default encoding box down the bottom and hit  Add    Bingo  error gone

[java] "Unmappable character for encoding UTF-8" error

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