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Thai language is not showing in Java output

Unable to print Thai string value in Java console

public static void main(String [] args){
   String engParam = "Beautiful";
   String thaiParam = "สวย";
   System.out.println("Output :" + engParam + ":::" + thaiParam);}

Output is showing like:

Output :Beautiful:::à?ªà??à?¢

I think System.out.println will not be able to print the UTF-8 characters with default console settings. Is there any other way available to resolve this issue? help needed.

Solution

  • You don't specify your environment, but this approach worked for me on Windows 10 from within my IDE, and also from the Command window:

    Here are the steps to get things working:

    These instructions are specific to Windows 10. If you are running in a different environment update your question with full details of your platform and your IDE.

    Updated 12/15/19 to provide an alternative approach:

    Instead of using Code page 874 (Thai) from the Command window, you could do this instead:

    Here's the code:

    package thaicharacters;

import java.io.PrintStream;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;

public class ThaiCharacters {

public static void main(String[] args) throws UnsupportedEncodingException {

    String engParam = "Beautiful";
    String thaiParam = "สวย";

    // Write the output to a UTF-8 PrintStream:
    PrintStream ps = new PrintStream(System.out, true, StandardCharsets.UTF_8.name());
    ps.println("UTF-8: " + engParam + ":::" + thaiParam);
}
}

    And here's the output in the Command window, showing that:

    chcp65001