Bug 158181 - [Encoding] Spontaneous change of encoding on Java file
Summary: [Encoding] Spontaneous change of encoding on Java file
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 3.2   Edit
Hardware: Macintosh Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Tod Creasey CLA
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Reported: 2006-09-21 13:20 EDT by Kim Horne CLA
Modified: 2009-07-15 14:46 EDT (History)
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Description Kim Horne CLA 2006-09-21 13:20:20 EDT 
3.2

I have no idea how this happened but I was making a simple change in a Java file in 3.2 and checked it into a repository.  Everything seemed okay until someone mailed me saying that the file was unreadable.  Sure enough, the file had magically changed encodings from MacRoman (container default) to UTF-16.  The properties dialog attributed this change to the content type of the file.  Additionally, the "Other" combo did not contain MacRoman (but I could choose it by typing it).  I could only revert the file by copying the text from Eclipse, pasting it into TextEdit, converting to plain text, and pasting back into Eclipse.
Comment 1 Tod Creasey CLA 2007-06-19 15:05:40 EDT 
Have you seen this in 3.3
Comment 2 Susan McCourt CLA 2009-07-15 14:46:08 EDT 
I'm going to close this bug based on its age and inability to reproduce.