IntelliJ IDEA 11.1 Web Help

IntelliJ IDEA provides individual approach to encoding and suggests the following major ways to change encoding:

IntelliJ IDEA also supports configuring encoding for properties files.

To configure encoding for a directory or file without embedded encoding information
  1. Open Project Settings dialog and select File Encodings.
  2. The File/Directory column shows the tree view of your project. The Default Encoding column shows encoding for directories or files. Click the Default encoding column for a directory or file you want to define encoding for, and then choose the desired encoding from the drop-down list:


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To change encoding of a file that contains explicit encoding
  1. Open the desired file in the editor.
  2. Change explicit encoding information. Use error highlighting to recognize wrong encoding and press Ctrl+SpaceControl Space to have a list of available encodings displayed:

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To change encoding of a single file that doesnt contain explicit encoding
  1. Open the desired file for editing editor.
  2. Do one of the following:
    • On the main menu, choose File | Reload <current encoding> in another encoding.
    • Click file encoding on the Status bar to show the list of available encodings.
  3. Select the desired target encoding from the submenu.

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