How to change file encoding in NetBeans

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I want to change encoding of file in NetBeans IDE  ver 6 9 1   let s say from ANSII to UTF-8  How can I do that   EDIT  I will be more precise  I don t want to change the default encoding in NetBeans  I want to only change encoding of the currently edited file

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There is an old Bugreport concerning this issue

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In NetBeans model all project files should have the same encoding  The answer is that you can t do that in Netbeans   If you are working in Netbeans you should consider to convert all files to a single encoding using other tools

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Yes  you can change the encoding of a specific file  or see what it has  with this Encoding Support plugin  With this plugin you will be able to handle the different encodings of your files without problems   Now it is in version 1 4 0 for NetBeans 8 2 and I use it in Windows 10 several time ago   The operation is very simple  in the status line you can see the encoding of the open file  and from there you can define its new encoding

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On project explorer  right click on the project  Properties -  General -  Encoding  This will allow you to choose the encoding per project

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This link answer your question  http   wiki netbeans org FaqI18nProjectEncoding  You can change the sources encoding or runtime encoding

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Go to etc folder in Netbeans home --  open netbeans conf file and add  on netbeans default options following line   -J-Dfile encoding UTF-8   Restart Netbeans and it should be in UTF-8  To check go to help --  about and check System  Windows Vista version 6 0 running on x86  UTF-8  nl NL  nb

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Just try to set the Projects Encoding to  UTF-8  and copy the file  which is encoded in iso  in the same Project  and if you dont need the old file just delete it  - now the copied file will be as UTF-8 - maybe this will help you

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The NetBeans documentation merely states a hierarchy for FileEncodingQuery  FEQ   suggesting that you can set encoding on a per-file basis    NetBeans wiki article  DevFaqI18nFileEncodingQueryObject   Project Encoding vs  File Encoding - What are the precedence rules used in NetBeans 6 x    Just for reference  this is the wiki-page regarding project-wide settings    NetBeans wiki article  FaqI18nProjectEncoding   How do I set or modify the character encoding for a project

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