How To Change Encoding To Utf 8

Encoding

To display and edit files correctly, IntelliJ IDEA needs to know which encoding to use. In general, source code files are mostly in UTF-8. This is the recommended encoding unless you have some other requirements.

To determine the encoding of a file, IntelliJ IDEA uses the following steps:

If the byte order mark (BOM) is present, IntelliJ IDEA will use the corresponding Unicode encoding regardless of all other settings. For more information, see Byte order mark.
If the file declares the encoding explicitly, IntelliJ IDEA will use the specified encoding. For example, this can apply to XML, HTML, and JSP files. The explicit declaration also overrides all other settings, but you can change it in the editor.
If there is no BOM and no explicit encoding declaration in the file, IntelliJ IDEA will use the encoding configured for the file or directory in the file encoding settings. If encoding is not configured for the file or directory, IntelliJ IDEA will use the encoding of the parent directory. If the parent directory encoding is also not configured, IntelliJ IDEA will fall back to the Project Encoding, and if there is no project, to Global Encoding.

Change the encoding used to view a file

If IntelliJ IDEA displays characters in a file incorrectly, it probably couldn't detect the file encoding. In this case, you need to specify the correct encoding to use for viewing and editing this file.

With the file open in the editor, either select from the main menu or click the File Encoding widget on the status bar, and select the correct encoding of the file.

Encodings marked with or might change the file contents. In this case, IntelliJ IDEA opens a dialog where you can choose what to do with the file:
- Reload: load the file in the editor from disk and apply encoding changes to the editor only. You will see the content changes related to the chosen encoding, but the actual file will not change.
- Convert: overwrite the file with the chosen encoding.

This will add an association for the file to the file encoding settings. IntelliJ IDEA will use the specified encoding to view and edit this file.

Configure file encoding settings

In the Settings/Preferences dialog Ctrl+Alt+S, select .

IntelliJ IDEA uses these settings to view and edit files for which it was not able to detect the encoding and also uses the specified encodings for new files.