Printing accented characters from a Java program onto a linux shell

Question

I'm running a Java program from command line in Ubuntu, and trying to print accented characters onto the console. But the characters get displayed as ? on the console. How do I make the shell display accented characters that are output from the program?

Answer 1

Set the LANG environment variable in your shell:

LANG=en_EN.utf-8

See also the ubunutu docs on environment variables.