Allow special characters as Java keyboard input

Question

I am using Scanner to read some keyboard data, however, accents and special characters are not identified.

For example: João and Maurício appear with a small square in the accented letter, however, if I type these words in the screen output is no problem. Show up straight.

I tried with static Locale PORTUGUESE; but it didn’t work out.

How can I make it work?

Thank you

EDIT

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My code is like this at the moment:

package Trabalho_final;

import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class Funcionario 
{
    private String nome, email, telefone;
    private float salario;

    Scanner ler = new Scanner(System.in,"UTF-8");

          //............ restante do código

Answer 1

Use the constructor of Scanner with, overload of encoding, as follows: Scanner skener=new Scanner(file,"ISO-8859-1"); if reading from a file or Scanner skener=new Scanner(System.in,"ISO-8859-1"); if reading from the standard input.

Below is a complete example:

import java.util.Scanner;

public class ScannerCharactersWithAccent {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        // read line
        System.out.println("Por favor, entre com os caracteres a serem lidos na próxima linha:");
        Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in,"ISO-8859-1");
        System.out.println(scanner.nextLine());

        // print line
        System.out.println("Caracteres lidos na linha anterior: " + scanner.nextLine());
    }
}

Answer 2

I tested it here and it worked like this (based on the answer from the colleague):

import java.util.Scanner;

public class Teste {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        // read line
        System.out.println("Por favor, entre com os caracteres a serem lidos na próxima linha:");
        Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in,"CP850");

        // print line
        System.out.println("Caracteres lidos na linha anterior: " + scanner.nextLine());
    }
}

CP850 is the default command prompt encoding.

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There is also the option to modify the command prompt encoding via the command chcp 1252 (for Windows-1252 encoding) after the same open or call it already with this encoding with the command cmd.exe 1252.

Source and more information: Special characters Command Prompt