Issues with weird characters

[patriotsfan]

I am having weird characters that show up in my java program such as "€¯â€¯". I am using inputStream and reading from a .txt file. Also, what is weird is that when I run in netbeans preview mode or as an executable .jar I get different results. When running in netbeans preview I get two squares and as a .jar I get "€¯â€¯". Is this something possibly with encoding settings? I have no knowledge about this, if someone could help out I would appreciate it.

[masijade]

The file is written in one character encoding and the system is reading in a different character encoding.

[patriotsfan]

I care about how the jar shows the text file so is there anyway for me to manually change the settings output on jar?

[kjkrum]

Wrap your InputStream in an InputStreamReader and specify the charset in the InputStreamReader's constructor. Then it will always use the same charset regardless of the system default.