UTF-8 chars in VScode debug console

[pmudry]

I can't get the debug console display UTF-8 chars in VS code. To replicate :

object Trivial extends App {
  println("éléphant")
}

Ouput is:

�l�phant

Does everyone gets the same result ?

Edited : the output is wrong using both the run lens in VSCode and with a launch configuration in launch.json. However, there is a solution thanks to @tgodzik below !

[tgodzik]

Thanks for the question! It seems to work fine for me. Maybe it's related to encoding in VS Code? Could you search the settings for encoding and see if it's properly set there? Alternatively, you could try adding -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 to the jvm options in the run configuration (.vscode/launch.json), but I don't need to set it myself and it seems to work.

[tgodzik]

Though I wonder, why is that really needed 🤔 I've never had issues with encoding, maybe it's also possible to set it system wide for java? If anyone knows, do let us know 😅

[pmudry]

Me neither, that's odd.

In addition, running via the run lens in VScode exhibits the same behavior in debug console. This is not expected either and adding .jvmopts does not change anything.

[JonaSi754]

I have the same problem in C++, I wonder how to solve it. I need it because I want to show some Chinese characters in console

[tgodzik]

Not sure, maybe something like https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11646368/how-to-set-file-encoding-format-to-utf8-in-c ?

[leprinco]

thanks so much, this helped me a lot. Just a small note, seems in my 2022 version of VS Code jvmOptions is replaced by vmArgs :
...
"args": "",
"vmArgs": ["-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8"],
"classPaths": []
...