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Re: [ide-dev] Charset questions for the surges
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Just one comment, we should probably explain why users want UTF-8. It
might catch users who don¹t care but really should based on what they¹re
working on.
On 11/20/2013, 5:36 AM, "Gunnar Wagenknecht" <gunnar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>Ian,
>
>Here is another question I¹d like to have an answer for:
>
>Question: Character Encoding
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>Currently the Eclipse IDE does open text files with the system encoding
>by default. This is likely different on Windows, Linux and MacOS. Thus,
>users editing text files on different environments need to configure the
>same encoding.
>
>Some users have requested that the file encoding should be UTF-8 by
>default, while others would like to keep the current setting. If set to
>UTF-8 by default, all text editors would open text files using that
>encoding on all platforms-
>
>To serve our users best, we would like to know what the majority of the
>users desires. Therefore please vote based on your preference.
>
>The Eclipse IDE should use UTF-8 encoding by default for all text files:
>
>1.) Yes
>2.) No
>
>
>-Gunnar
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>Gunnar Wagenknecht
>gunnar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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