I have some UTF-8 HTML templates in my Eclipse project and Eclipse keeps treating them as if they had a different encoding. It says the encoding is "determined from content". I want to force the correct encoding.
I can force it for a single file but setting an encoding for the parent folder won't affect the files in it because instead of the "inherit" option in the property sheet there's the "determined from content" thing in it's place.
Is it possible to set the encoding for all files in a Project at once?
I've just solved this problem (eclipse 3.5.2)
Two steps required:
Change text file encoding on the folder property page(.setting/org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs file has been created in my project)
Change default encoding on *.html file content type on the Preference page General/Content Types
I've only seen "determined from content" for XML files. In that case it's the only correct setting, because XML files have their encoding defined in their header, so forcing anything else would be a grave mistake.
If you still want to do it, you could try to view the file .settings/org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs in your project (that file may or may not exist dependin on wether you've manually set any encoding in the project or not).
This was caused by a development version of Eclipse. In the latest official release (3.5) it is fixed.
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I wanted to know if its posible to set a different file encoding per each project I have on eclipse.
I know that I can have different workspaces and set a different encoding for each one, but id like to have all my projects on one, if posible...
Yes you can.
Open the Properties for the Project and select the 'Resource' tab. Set the 'Text file encoding' to what you want.
Make sure that all the files in the project have their Text file encoding set to 'Default (inherited from container)'
You can also set the defaults for everything in a Folder in the same way.
I think it's possible.
1.Select your project.
2.Right click and select Properties.
3.Select Resource menu and you can choose your file encoding.
This is not working with Eclipse Mars, for some file types, as eg JavaScript. For *.js files, the configuration "Determined from content type" is having precedence over the project's Resource configuration.
I've also tried to specify my JS directory encoding in .settings/org.eclipse.core.resources.pref, which is specific for the project, by defining
encoding//src/main/webapp/js=ISO-8859-1, but then again the workspace configuration is having precedence.
I have a development environment with two distinct projects, one in UTF-8 (newer) and anoter in ISO-8859-1 (legacy). I would like to easily switch between them.
One solution I've found was to create two workspaces. It worked, but it seems rather awkward as instructions to other developers. So it would be desirable to really have such configurations on a per-project basis.
I'm wondering if anyone has encountered this problem and how he solved it. I worked in a project where the IDE is not imposed to developpers (we can use Eclipse, Netbeans etc.).
When working with properties file (Java wait for an ISO-8859-1 encoding), eclipse handles them well, but in Netbeans, each national char (éàü etc.) are automatically escaped like this \uxxx. So eclipse users will get properties file with escaped characters, which is really annoying.
It is painful for i18n for instance.
Does anyone found a workaround for this ?
Edit
In Netbeans 8, it's possible to check an option for properties file that allow us to use project encoding. (See comments below).
That's a sane default behavior - properties file are read using ISO-8859-1 encoding by default (How to use UTF-8 in resource properties with ResourceBundle or find some other resources). I think that NetBeans editor lets you edit them using UTF-8 and converts the content on save. You can override this: select the file (for example in project tab), choose Properties from its context menu and make it use project encoding. NetBeans will not perform the conversion then.
I'm using Eclipse Juno to write Android applications. I have a strange problem:
If I types text (UTF8 characters) in other text editor (.e.g Notepad) and then copy/paste into Eclipse, the characters display correctly, but if typing directly in Eclipse, the characters seem to be converted to ANSI.
I have set text file encoding for project to UTF8 but nothing change.
Right click on file > Properties, the Eclipse shows the file encoding is in UTF8, but if i open file in Notepad++ and check Encoding menu, Notepad++ shows that file is in ANSI.
What is the problem here? please help!
This is exactly why you store all text in strings.xml files on android. They are encoded UTF-8 by default.
Encoding is not property of file, It is about how to treat this file. So changing ecnoding not actually changes anythings. It's Okay.
I think you edited "*.properties" file. In this case, You can't use "UTF-8" because It support only ISO-8859-1, since this file will be load in runtime dynamically.
I'm using *.properties files in my java/android applications for my translations files. My problem is that .properties files in eclipse escape utf-8 characters that are out of the ISO-8859-1 charset so I see the escaped characters. So I decided to make my own library that reads the file in utf-8 format. BUT eclipse still escapes characters. Is there any way to make eclipse handle *.properties files as normal text files??
Right Click on the file, properties. Under "resource" tab , check for "Text File Encoding" at the bottom right and change that to UTF-8.
Don't call them .properties files, give them another file extension and they will be handled by the text editor only, instead of the properties file editor.
Even without the editing issue you should not call them .properties, as they are not compliant to the Java properties file standard, which might confuse other developers on that project, other tools and so on.
The best solution however is yet another one: Throw away your selfmade implementation and get yourself a better editor for properties files, which shows you the characters as you want to read them, independent of how they are encoded in the file.
I recently created a project, organized it and well... I used my Mac with Eclipse running. Somehow it stored everything in MacRoman. The project has to be UTF8.
Is there any easy way to handle the conversions?
You have some detailed explanation in this blog post by David HOLT for the WOLips/WOProject.
Check your default preferences:
In Eclipse, go to Preferences>General>Workspace and select UTF-8 as the Text File Encoding.
This should set the encoding for all the resources in your workspace. Any components you create from now on using the default encoding should all match.
Change the encoding for a resource (project, folder or file)
Right (or Control) click on the resource in the WO Package Explorer and select the Properties option at the bottom of the contextual menu.
Go to Resource>Text File Encoding.
You should see "Inherited from container (UTF-8)" if you've made the change above, otherwise it will be (MacRoman).
Select Other - UTF-8 and Apply to make the warning go away.