afaik, when not using literal non-ascii characters in java source code you're supposed to use native2ascii. Running it on my mac gives this: $ native2ascii F

afaik, when not using literal non-ascii characters in java source code you're supposed to use native2ascii. Running it on my mac gives this: $ native2ascii Foo.java public class Foo { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("I have \u201a\u00c7\u00a8100 to my name."); } } The resulting program from that works perfectly fine in my mac terminal, which makes the "I know Java pretty well" statement pretty suspicious...