RE: [cdt-dev] character encoding problems

[Andrew Niefer <aniefer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Note that the headless build of CDT
won't know about any encoding preferences from the workspace or project
preferences.  For headless build purposes, you can set the default
encoding to use for a project, or set custom encodings per file or folder
in the project's build.properties file.  See the javacDefaultEncoding
and javacCustomEncodings properties here:
http://help.eclipse.org/help32/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/reference/pde_feature_generating_build.htm

-Andrew

"Leherbauer, Anton" <Anton.Leherbauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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09/13/2006 10:51 AM

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Subject	RE: [cdt-dev] character encoding problems

Changing the encoding of a CVS repository location
http://help.eclipse.org/help32/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc
.user/tasks/tasks-95a.htm 

"The encoding does not affect the contents of file."

I don't think that the encoding problems were caused by CVS
checkin/-out.
I suppose, CVS handles all text files transparently as byte stream
without
the need to encode/decode.

Toni

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wieant Nielander
> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 3:19 PM
> To: CDT General developers list.
> Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] character encoding problems
> 
> 
> > 1. convert the files to valid UTF-8 and also mark 
> >    them as UTF-8 in the project preferences
> > 
> > 2. replace the offending characters with plain ASCII.
> > 
> > I'd prefer option 1 and I could also do the conversion
> > if nobody objects.
> > 
> > BTW, it is probably a JVM-dependent issue how
> > the builtin decoding methods handle encoding problems.
> > The Sun JVM on Windows replaces malformed input bytes
> > and unmappable characters by default (as e.g. in Charset#decode()),
> > instead of reporting errors.
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> If I check the default CVS server encoding it appears to be 
> Cp1252 on my
> windows machine and ISO-8859-1 on my linux machine, might 
> this problem have
> been caused due to such a setting, e.g. file has been checked 
> in on Windows
> using Cp1252 server encoding and checked out on PowerPC using 
> UTF-8 server
> encoding?
> 
> And what is the default Eclipse CVS repository encoding btw, 
> I couldn't
> find it on the Using_Eclipse_and_CVS wiki page?
> 
> Regards,
>   Wieant
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