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~ Sorry that I have repeatedly posted the same messages, but for some weird reason my posts don't seem to get to your servers, I even got the following error: ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ http://forum.lxde.org/posting.php?mode=reply&f=8&t=1528 ERROR T...

You need to ensure that the environment variable LANG is appropriately defined to include the desired encoding which in your case is UTF-8. Many people put this definition into their shell initialization script. So for example if you were German you might have in your .bashrc ~ OK, since in my case...

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I code java and I use international characters that are not part of latin-1
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How can I make the console print these characters as they are supposed to be?
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Thank you
lbrtchx