java - hebrew appears as question marks in netbeans

Question

I am using netbeans 6.1 on 2 computers.

on one of them the program:

public static void main(String argv[]) 
{
        System.out.println("????");
}

prints normally, and the on the other question marks.
what can be the difference between the 2 environments?

edit: on both computers Control Panel Regional and Language Options Advanced is set to hebrew
edit: Thank you Michael Burr, but the value of the encoding is already UTF-8. Maybe this something with the JVM?
edit: I have installed Eclipse and the problem occurs there as well. I also tried reading the hebrew from a file with the same result.
edit: System.getProperty("file.encoding"); returns "Cp1252" I tried System.setProperty("file.encoding","UTF-8") but the question marks remains.

Thanks,
Ido

Answer 1

Make sure that NetBeans is set up with an encoding that supports Hebrew characters. From the NetBeans Wiki:

To change the language encoding for a project:

1. Right-click a project node in the Projects windows and choose Properties.
2. Under Sources, select an encoding value from the Encoding drop-down field.