Cannot compile Java file with non-ASCII character

Question

Important:

I must use plain windows notepad only (neither IDE nor Notepad++ or any other text editors allowed).

So I have a simple class:

class Test{
    public static void main(String[] args){
       char c = 'қ';
       System.out.println(c);
    }
 }

By default notepad saves text files using ANSII encoding, but as you can see I have a non-ANSII character in my code. I can compile and run this code via command prompt, but output is ? instead of қ , which seems obvious. When I change the file's encoding to UTF-8, compiler throws an error. I have read this article Illegal Character when trying to compile java code but there is no solution for my particular problem, because as I wrote above, I am not allowed to use any text editors but Windows notepad.

Thank you!

Answer 1

Probably you need like this:

char c = '\u039A'; 

I don't know the code of your 'k', but you may find it on https://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~tomw/java/unicode.html

Also hopes that Windows has this character for output in the console

ps The console of windows has a certain code page. Try to change it in console, for example:

REM change CHCP to UTF-8
CHCP 65001
CLS

and remember about different fonts in windows console, some of them can't draw specific symbols.

Answer 2

Yes, the problem is that javac is non-compliant in not accepting the BOM with UFT-8.

Use Notepad to save as Unicode (actually UTF-16LE).

Compile with

javac -encoding UTF-16 Test.java