Weird character when formatting in colours

[Acrogenous]

On the lore of one of my Items there is this string:

but in minecraft it is displayed with what I believe is an Å at the start of it:

any idea to how I remove this rogue character but keep the formatting?

Thanks in advanced

[Draco18s]

Show your code. You're probably doing it wrong.

 

[Acrogenous]

  On 10/27/2017 at 7:56 PM, diesieben07 said:

Don't put formatting codes in your lang file. Use String interpolation.

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this isn't the lang file this is 

Lore.add(1,"§2Bound Entropy: "+String.valueOf(a.getTagCompound().getInteger("entropy")));

how would you suggest to go about using string interpolation to achieve the same result? (I am not particularly familiar with interpolation)

Edited October 27, 2017 by Acrogenous

[Draco18s]

Yep, you're doing it wrong.

The TextFormatting enum is a thing.

https://github.com/Draco18s/ReasonableRealism/blob/1.12.1/src/main/java/com/draco18s/flowers/item/ItemOreFlower1.java#L55

Edited October 27, 2017 by Draco18s

[Differentiation]

Lore.add(1, TextFormatting.DARK_GREEN + "Bound Entropy: " + String.valueOf(a.getTagCompound().getInteger("entropy")));

Solved.

[Acrogenous]

Ah, I thought that only applied to TextComponent! Thank you all!

[Choonster]

While using a lang file and the TextFormatting enum is the proper way to do this, it should still be possible to use formatting codes inline. Your issue was probably happening because your code wasn't saved or compiled as UTF-8.