I had to change the Eclipse Indigo encoding to UTF-8. Now all the spécial characters as éàçè are replaced with �.
I can do a search and replace but I wonder if there is better solution.
Thanks
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- You'll need project-specific encoding, then.Marko Topolnik– Marko Topolnik2012-07-17 14:26:36 +00:00Commented Jul 17, 2012 at 14:26
- 1Check out stackoverflow.com/questions/64860/… as this seems to be what you wantDaniel Leschkowski– Daniel Leschkowski2012-07-17 14:28:04 +00:00Commented Jul 17, 2012 at 14:28
- 1@MarcoTopolnik he has changed the encoding, now he has to deal with the broken chars. If he did want another encoding i assume he would have left it as it was before ;)Daniel Leschkowski– Daniel Leschkowski2012-07-17 14:30:10 +00:00Commented Jul 17, 2012 at 14:30
- 1Changing the encoding in Eclipse doesn't change your existing files : it only changes the way Eclipse reads them. What you need is to convert your old files to UTF-8 as well as configuring Eclipse. There are some tools to do that and you may write a small java program too.Denys Séguret– Denys Séguret2012-07-17 14:42:45 +00:00Commented Jul 17, 2012 at 14:42
- @dystroy that's true, because when I open a class with NotePad++, the characters are displayed properly.Momo– Momo2012-07-17 14:48:24 +00:00Commented Jul 17, 2012 at 14:48
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Changing the encoding in Eclipse doesn't change your existing files : it only changes the way Eclipse reads them.
What you need is to convert your old files to UTF-8 as well as configuring Eclipse.
There are some tools to do that and you may write a small java program too.
If you want to use an existing tool, here's the first I found : http://www.marblesoftware.com/Marble_Software/Charco.html (you could find a better one for your (unspecified) OS.
If you want to write a tool yourself (about 20 LOC), the thing to know is that you must :
Here's the core of the operation :
reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(...), "you have to know it")); writer = new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(...), "UTF-8"); String line; while ((line=reader.readLine())!=null) { writer.write(line); } 
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I recommend notepad++ for conversion. This is an editor which has some very useful/powerful view and conversion tools to troubleshoot charsets. Also some more "swiss-knife"-like functions (file comparison, advanced search and replace and many more...)
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Bernhard Döbler
It's sad, that a large tool like eclipse does not have this functionality built in.
Just only need alt + enter then chooses resource UTF-8
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Tuomas Kiviaho
Even neon 3 can't do the transfer automatically. First change the resource to let's say ISO-8859-1 or depending whatever encoding the file actually is, cut the text to clipboard and save the file empty. Don't forget to close the editor. Then do the alt + enter trick and change the file encoding, open the file and paste the content back.