Bug 83561

Summary:	[preferences][encoding] Need to remember font as well as encoding for text editors
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	mary
Component:	Text	Assignee:	Platform-Text-Inbox <platform-text-inbox>
Status:	ASSIGNED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	Andre.Veltstra
Version:	3.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description mary

2005-01-24 14:11:36 EST

The new property for text file encoding for each file is great. However, one 
more step is needed, and that is to remember the font used for editing each 
file. For example, we have a language translation program. The Japanese 
dictionary file needs to be in a unicode font that displays Japanese 
characters. But the Spanish dictionary file needs a different font that has all 
the Spanish characters. This problem is exacerbated when combining languages 
like Japanese, Chinese, Hebrew and/or Arabaic in one application. In some, 
cases, it is not even possible to use an all-in-one Unicode font as the 
representations of the same characters differ across languages.