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Non-Basic Latin character

Reports non-Basic Latin characters in literals and comments. The inspection provides a fix to replace such characters with Unicode escapes in literals, and with HTML entities in comments.

Example:

// © 2021 char c = '©'; String s = "Áî";

After the quick-fix is applied:

// © 2021 char c = '\u00a9'; String s = "\u00c1\u00ee";

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

ConvertToBasicLatin
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Java | Internationalization

By default, this inspection does not highlight in the editor, but only provides a fix.

Inspection ID: ConvertToBasicLatin

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection ConvertToBasicLatin

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3, Qodana for JVM 2025.3,

Last modified: 03 December 2025