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- have a file in some project encoded in CP1250 encoding, containing non-ASCII characters, like: č - in Eclipse, set the encoding for that file to UTF-8 (this happens often when working with legacy files while the default in Eclipse is UTF-8) - open the file in Eclipse (double click it in Project Exporer, to open a Text Editor) - make some change, like add a space character - save: ctrl-s Result: the non-ASCII characters in the file are corrupted (each replaced with some multi- byte code) Should be: either: - unedited characters should stays as they are or - a dialog saying what happened (or a warning, that it will happen) Version: Eclipse IDE for Enterprise Java Developers. Version: 2019-03 (4.11.0) Build id: 20190314-1200
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This still happens in the current version: Eclipse IDE for Enterprise Java and Web Developers (includes Incubating components) Version: 2021-03 (4.19.0) Build id: 20210312-0638 Here are revised steps to reproduce: - have a file in some project encoded in CP1250 encoding, containing non-ASCII characters, like: č (create a text file, set its encoding to CP1250, enter some characters, including non-ASCII, like čšž, save it, close the editor) - in Eclipse, set the encoding for that file to UTF-8 (this happens often when working with legacy files while the default in Eclipse is UTF-8), for example by right clicking the file in the Project Explorer, in the context menu select Properties, then there change the encoding to UTF-8 - open the file in Eclipse (double click it in Project Exporer, to open a Text Editor) - make some change, like add a space character - save: ctrl-s Result: the non-ASCII characters in the file are corrupted (each replaced with some multi- byte code) To check: in Eclipse, set the file encoding back to CP1250, then open it in Eclipse
I'd be surprised if anybody would do anything here. If you have in Eclipse encoding UTF-8, the file will be read as UTF-8. Unless it's a special combination of non-ASCII characters that by chance would also be valid UTF-8 I would expect the content already to be garbled when opening the file. Just set the correct encoding for the file. Applying the encoding specified in Eclipse only on save and only to changed Characters would be very bad IMO. Consider your file encoded with CP1250 containing č, but Eclipse encoding for that file set to UTF-8. Now enter a š somewhere else and save. You'd end up with a file with mixed encoding CP1250/UTF-8, with the č unchanged as CP1250 and the š stored in UTF-8.
