How to set default system file encoding in IntelliJ IDEA

file, file-encodings, intellij-idea

Solution

You can select system's default encoding from the same drop down:

Problem

I want IDEA to use whatever default system encoding is, instead it uses whatever is set through Settings > File Encodings. Which is set to UTF-8. My application runs fine in Eclipse, which uses default system encoding on windows, but it is having trouble reading some xmi files when running the application through IDEA.

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