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Accent in JTable displayed in Eclipse but not in a .jar

I am displaying a csv file (with a UTF-8 encoding and french accents) in a JTable. To read the file I use the following lines (s_path is a String which corresponds to the path of the csv file):
reader = new CSVReader(new FileReader(s_path),',');
do{
String currentLine = reader.readNext();
...
}
To display the content of a cell in the JTable I use html (i.e., "html" and "body" markup and eventually "br" markups if a cell is displayed on several lines)
It works fine when I execute the project in Eclipse. However, if I export a .jar file from my project (and use the exact same csv files), the accent are not displayed (e.g., see the following image).
I really don't have any idea how to solve this problem. Do you have any suggestions?
Don't hesitate to ask for more details if necessary.
Thanks in advance.

If the file really is encoded using UTF8, you should use
reader = new CSVReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(s_path), StandardCharsets.UTF_8), ',');
to read it. The way you're doing it, it uses the default charset of your platform, which is probably not UTF8.

BufferedReader, read chars in an edittext gives strange chars

Ok, I am reading a .docx file via a BufferedReader and want to store the text in an edittext. The .docx is not in english language but in a different one (greek). I use:
File file = new File(file_Path);
try {
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file));
String line;
StringBuilder text = new StringBuilder();
while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
text.append(line);
}
et1.setText(text);
And the result I get is this:
If the characters are in english language, it works fine. But in my case they aren't. How can I fix this? Thanks a lot

Ok, I am reading a .docx file via a BufferedReader
Well that's the first problem. BufferedReader is for plain text files. docx files are binary files in a specific format (assuming you mean the kind of file that Microsoft Word saves). You can't just read them like text files. Open the file up in Notepad (not Wordpad) and you'll see what what I mean.
You might want to look at Apache POI.
From comments:
Testing to read a .txt file with the same text gave same results too
That's probably due to using the wrong encoding. FileReader always uses the platform default encoding, which is annoying. Assuming you're using Java 7 or higher, you'd be better off with Files.newBufferedReader:
try (BufferedReader reader = Files.newBufferedReader(path, StandardCharsets.UTF_8)) {
...
}
Adjust the charset to match the one you used when saving your text file, of course - if you have the option of using UTF-8, that's a pretty good choice. (Aside from anything else, pretty much everything can handle UTF-8.)

Error when reading non-English language character from file

I am building an app where users have to guess a secret word. I have *.txt files in assets folder. The problem is that words are in Albanian language. Our language uses letters like "ë" and "ç", so whenever I try to read from the file some word containing any of those characters I get some wicked symbol and I can not implement string.compare() for these characters. I have tried many options with UTF-8, changed Eclipse setting but still the same error.
I wold really appreciate if someone has got any advice.
The code I use to read the files is:
AssetManager am = getAssets();
strOpenFile = "fjalet.txt";
InputStream fins = am.open(strOpenFile);
reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(fins));
ArrayList<String> stringList = new ArrayList<String>();
while ((aDataRow = reader.readLine()) != null) {
aBuffer += aDataRow + "\n";
stringList.add(aDataRow);
}
Otherwise the code works fine, except for mentioned characters

It seems pretty clear that the default encoding that is in force when you create the InputStreamReader does not match the file.
If the file you are trying to read is UTF-8, then this should work:
reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(fins, "UTF-8"));
If the file is not UTF-8, then that won't work. Instead you should use the name of the file's true encoding. (My guess is that it is in ISO/IEC_8859-1 or ISO/IEC_8859-16.)
Once you have figured out what the file's encoding really is, you need to try to understand why it does not correspond to your Java platform's default encoding ... and then make a pragmatic decision on what to do about it. (Should you hard-wire the encoding into your application ... as above? Should you make it a configuration property or command parameter? Should you change the default encoding? Should you change the file?)

You need to determine the character encoding that was used when creating the file, and specify this encoding when reading it. If it's UTF-8, for example, use
reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(fins, "UTF-8"));
or
reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(fins, StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
if you're under Java 7.
Text editors like Notepad++ have good heuristics to guess what the encoding of a file is. Try opening it with such an editor and see which encoding it has guessed (if the characters appear correctly).

You should know encoding of the file.
InputStream class reads file binary. Although you can interpet input as character, it will be implicit guessing, which may be wrong.
InputStreamReader class converts binary to chars. But it should know character set.
You should use the following version to feed it by character set.
UPDATE
Don't suggest you have UTF-8 encoded file, which may be wrong. Here in Russia we have such encodings as CP866, WIN1251 and KOI8, which are all differ from UTF8. Probably you have some popular Albanian encoding of text files. Check your OS setting to guess.

Reading Arabic chars from text file

I had finished a project in which I read from a text file written with notepad.
The characters in my text file are in Arabic language,and the file encoding type is UTF-8.
When launching my project inside Netbeans(7.0.1) everything seemed to be ok,but when I built the project as a (.jar) file the characters where displayed in this way: ÇáãæÇÞÚááÊØæíÑ.
How could I solve This problem please?

Most likely you are using JVM default character encoding somewhere. If you are 100% sure your file is encoded using UTF-8, make sure you explicitly specify UTF-8 when reading as well. For example this piece of code is broken:
new FileReader("file.txt")
because it uses JVM default character encoding - which you might not have control over and apparently Netbeans uses UTF-8 while your operating system defines something different. Note that this makes FileReader class completely useless if you want your code to be portable.
Instead use the following code snippet:
new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream("file.txt"), "UTF-8");
You are not providing your code, but this should give you a general impression how this should be implemented.

Maybe this example will help a little. I will try to print content of utf-8 file to IDE console and system console that is encoded in "Cp852".
My d:\data.txt contains ąźżćąś adsfasdf
Lets check this code
//I will read chars using utf-8 encoding
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
new FileInputStream("d:\\data.txt"), "utf-8"));
//and write to console using Cp852 encoding (works for my windows7 console)
PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(System.out,
"Cp852"),true); // "Cp852" is coding used in
// my console in Win7
// ok, lets read data from file
String line;
while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
// here I use IDE encoding
System.out.println(line);
// here I print data using Cp852 encoding
out.println(line);
}
When I run it in Eclipse output will be
ąźżćąś adsfasdf
Ą«ľ†Ą? adsfasdf
but output from system console will be

Display Hindi language in console using Java

StringBuffer contents=new StringBuffer();
BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("/home/xyz/abc.txt"));
String line = null; //not declared within while loop
while (( line = input.readLine()) != null){
contents.append(line);
}
System.out.println(contents.toString());
File abc.txt contains
\u0905\u092d\u0940 \u0938\u092e\u092f \u0939\u0948 \u091c\u0928\u0924\u093e \u091c\u094b \u091a\u093e\u0939\u0924\u0940 \u0939\u0948 \u092
I want to dispaly in Hindi language in console using Java.
if i simply print like this
String str="\u0905\u092d\u0940 \u0938\u092e\u092f \u0939\u0948 \u091c\u0928\u0924\u093e \u091c\u094b \u091a\u093e\u0939\u0924\u0940 \u0939\u0948 \u092";
System.out.println(str);
then it works fine but when i try to read from a file it doesn't work.
help me out.

Use Apache Commons Lang.
import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringEscapeUtils;
// open the file as ASCII, read it into a string, then
String escapedStr; // = "\u0905\u092d\u0940 \u0938\u092e\u092f \u0939\u0948 ..."
// (to include such a string in a Java program you would have to double each \)
String hindiStr = StringEscapeUtils.unescapeJava( escapedStr );
System.out.println(hindiStr);
(Make sure your console is set up to display Hindi (correct fonts, etc) and the console's encoding matches your Java encoding. The Java code above is just the bare bones.)

You should store the contents in the file as UTF-8 encoded Hindi characters. For instance, in your case it would be अभी समय है जनता जो चाहती है. That is, instead of saving unicode escapes, directly save the raw Hindi characters. You can then simply read like normal.
You just have to make sure that the editor you use saves it using UTF-8 encoding. See Spanish language chars are not displayed properly?
Otherwise, you'll have to make the file a .properties file and read using java.util.Properties as it offers unicode unescaping support inherently.
Also read Reading unicode character in java