Problem using the pound sterling sign (£)

[sarni13]

I'm a fairly new user of java and am hitting trouble trying to get the £ sign to work in my program.

I'm only trying to out put it to the user:

System.out.println("To travel from Leicester to Loughborough it will cost £2.50");

However when I run the program the £ sign is being shown as a ú instead.

To travel from Leicester to Loughborough it will cost ú2.50

How can I get it to show the £ sign in the program?

Adam

[KevinWorkman]

Works for me in eclipse, but not from the command prompt.

Also, using the following does the same thing:
System.out.println("To travel from Leicester to Loughborough it will cost \u00A3 2.50");

[sarni13]

Yeah its the command prompt that I need it to work in :/.

[KevinWorkman]

This is a common problem. Here's a solution I found: I18N: Unicode at the Windows command prompt (C++; .Net; Java)