Recieving 65533 as char value for characters as (à, Ø, æ, æ etc)!

Question

I've been trying for hours now to figure out why, when enter a char like Ø in the console through the scanner, to then get the numeric value, I always end up with 65533 (Max value of unsigned short)?

This doesn't seem to be the case for latin characters. Any idea why?

public static void main(String[] args) {

    Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
    char[] chars = sc.next().toCharArray();

    for(int i = 0; i < chars.length; i++){

        System.out.println((int)chars[i]);
    }
}

Answer 1

65533 = Unicode Character 'REPLACEMENT CHARACTER' (U+FFFD)

i.e. Your character is not being interpreted correctly within the character encoding you are using, and so is being replaced by the fallback value.