Question: My laptop suffered a hard drive failure and i had to re-install IntelliJ and windows on a new hard drive.
In my old drive i was able to print (system.out.println) foreign languages in the console without any issues, but after the re-installation my console is not recognizing the text and i get an output like this 

```
????????????? ???? |
??????????-??? ??_???????-???

?????? ???????:
?????: ?????????-?????
????????? ??-?? ? 1-1 ?

```

i dont think its due to any error in my source, is there any way to configure my IDE to be able to recognize this text ( tamil in this instance but i need to support a large number of languages )

Thanks in advance,
Sumal.

Answer: 
Check if you have selected an IDE encoding that supports foreign languages. 

```
Settings → File Encoding → Project Encoding → IDE Encoding

```

There, select `UTF-8`.
For x64 version of the Executable, you have to find the file *idea64.exe.vmoptions* instead, and add the line `-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8` as others mentioned.