Navigate to
<Netbeans installation directory>/etc
and open thenetbeans.conf
file.Add
-J-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
at the end of the line that starts withnetbeans_default_options
(make sure to include the leading space).Restart Netbeans and it should be in UTF-8
To verify go to
help -> about
and check System:Windows Vista version 6.0 running on x86; UTF-8; nl_NL (nb)