[news.eclipse.tools.jdt] Re: [BUG??] How to display Unicode character in

[Andreas Schildbach <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Horvath, Csaba wrote:

> In Eclipse 3.0.x the console use the default encoding afaik. In 3.1M7 you
> can set the console encoding in every 'Run Configuration'.

I don't understand why consoles have got an encoding after all?

I mean, consoles are not byte streams. They print characters. So if I do 
"System.out.println(someStrangeUnicodeCharacters)" the characters are 
directly printed to screen, glyph by glyph - provided that there are 
glyphs in the font that is used for the console.

So I would understand if you could configure fonts for consoles, but why 
encodings?

Regards,

Andreas