Google App Engine encoding

I'm trying to log some russian text:

LOG.info("тестирование русского");

But I get question symbols instead (viewing from web):

[app-id/app-version].: 15:18:44,753 INFO [class] - ???????????? ????????

Java file saved with UTF-8 encoding. All settings are default.

Even I read file in UTF-8 with russian characters and try to log something from it -- encoding is wro开发者_开发知识库ng too.

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I had a similar problem with Hebrew text. I found out it was caused by the default encoding.

To check the default encoding, I used this code:

OutputStreamWriter out = new OutputStreamWriter(new ByteArrayOutputStream());
String encoding = out.getEncoding(); 

On my computer, the encoding is "UTF8". On the GAE server, it is "ASCII".

I solved the problem by replacing all the file readers in my code with:

new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(file), "UTF8"));

This tells Java to ignore the default encoding, and open all input files as UTF8.

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Try this. Apparently GAE tries to autodetect encoding and fails. Even constant strings were messed up

public class Util {
    public static String FixRussianString(String string){
        try {
            return new String(string.getBytes("CP1251"), "UTF-8");
        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return string;
    }
}