Turns out it was the LANG var issue<div><br></div><div>export LANG=en_US sorted me out. The default is en_US.UTF-8<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:27 PM, mail2lawi <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mail2lawi@gmail.com" target="_blank">mail2lawi@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi guys,<div><br></div><div>I am trying to use some special characters on a redhat system but the output I am getting is wrong. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Ideally, the output should be (This is from the same script on a windows machine):</div>
<div>&lt;snip&gt;</div><div>224:<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">	</span>à   225:<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">	</span>á   226:<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">	</span>â   227:<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">	</span>ã   228:<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">	</span>ä   229:<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">	</span>å   230:<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">	</span>æ</div>

<div>&lt;/snip&gt;</div><div><br></div><div>However, this is what am getting:</div><div>&lt;snip&gt;
</div><div>224:       à    225:       á   226:       â   227:       ã</div><div>&lt;/snip&gt;
</div><div><br></div><div>This is the small test.java script am using:</div><div><br></div><div><div>  public class test</div><div>  {</div><div>   public static void main(String args[])</div><div>   { </div><div>     for(int i=200; i&lt;=300;i++)</div>

<div>      {</div><div>       System.out.print(i + &quot;:\t&quot;  + (char)i +&quot;   &quot;);</div><div>      }</div><div>        </div><div>   }</div><div>  }</div></div><div><br></div><div>Redhat version - RHEL5.2</div>

<div>Linux &lt;hostname&gt; 2.6.18-92.el5 #1 SMP Tue Apr 29 13:16:15 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 
</div><div><br></div><div><div>java version &quot;1.6.0_31&quot;</div><div>Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_31-b04)</div><div>Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.6-b01, mixed mode)</div></div>
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