title: Does Java 1.7 use a different character encoding?
body: <p>We are migrating our application from Java 1.6 to Java 1.7. We recompiled the code using Java 1.7 and received an error while compiling which was due to a character (an <code>Ó</code>). </p>
  
  <p>Was there a change in Java 1.7 related to characters? Our application does a lot of processing of incoming files to then load them into a database and I want to ensure that when we upgrade to Java 1.7 that the reading of a file from java and the writing to the database of that content wont result in some odd character conversions. </p>
  
  <p>Do I need to be concerned at all when upgrading to 1.7? If so, how to I get the same encoding that we had in Java 1.6?</p>