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It is possible to set a file encoding for NetBeans by manually editing the config file and adding -J-Dfile.encoding=utf8 to the netbeans_default_options. However, this is awkward... it would be very useful to be able to specify this in the Settings.
Note, this applies to windows such as Output rather than the files themselves.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 122276 ***