Originally posted by Louie van Bommel:
Nope
I've shown you how to recover the correct hex value. Displaying the character is another thing altogether. As Layne says, your OS has to be configured with the right code page to show non-ASCII characters. You may have better luck in a Swing window than you will at a console window.
Note that Mozilla on my machine, which properly displays Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Cyrillic, Hebrew, and all sorts of exotic scripts, prints "?" for 0x90, too.
So in what character set is 0x90 an E with an accent? in all of the ISO8859 sets, 0x90 is a non-printing character.