diff -r 5bacc2ced653 jmh-core/src/main/java/org/openjdk/jmh/util/Utils.java
--- a/jmh-core/src/main/java/org/openjdk/jmh/util/Utils.java	Thu Sep 15 12:48:53 2016 +0200
+++ b/jmh-core/src/main/java/org/openjdk/jmh/util/Utils.java	Thu Sep 15 13:34:46 2016 +0200
@@ -248,13 +248,7 @@
                     return Charset.forName((String) res);
                 }
             }
-        } catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
-            // fall-through
-        } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
-            // fall-through
-        } catch (NoSuchMethodException e) {
-            // fall-through
-        } catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
+        } catch (Exception e) {
             // fall-through
         }
 
@@ -274,15 +268,21 @@
                     }
                 }
             }
-        } catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
-            // fall-through
-        } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
-            // fall-through
-        } catch (UnsupportedCharsetException e) {
+        } catch (Exception e) {
             // fall-through
         }
 
-        // Try 3. Nothing left to do, except for returning a (possibly mismatched) default charset.
+        // Try 3. Try to poll internal properties.
+        String prop = System.getProperty("sun.stdout.encoding");
+        if (prop != null) {
+            try {
+                return Charset.forName(prop);
+            } catch (Exception e) {
+                // fall-through
+            }
+        }
+
+        // Try 4. Nothing left to do, except for returning a (possibly mismatched) default charset.
         return Charset.defaultCharset();
     }