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Editing UTF-8 Files

This article http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t93442.rhtml shows how to do it with a file. I am a bit suscpisous if this covers everything though... will check out soon.

All our property files must be UTF-8 with no BOM (Byte Order Marking). For Eclipse to properly edit the UTF-8 property files,

• Window, Preferences
• General, Content Types, Text,
  • Java Properties File
    • Change Default encoding from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
    • Click Update
  • JSP
    • Change Default encoding from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
    • Click Update
• General, Workspace *
  • Text file encoding, Other
  • Change Cp1252(this may differ depending on your OS)  to UTF-8
  • Click Apply

    Note
    On a Linux environment the Text file encoding will already default to UTF-8 so you can skip this step.

Creation of Web Files in UTF-8

This changes what format and automatic encoding tags used when you use Eclipse wizards to create web file.

• Window, Preferences, Web
• Encoding, change the following to ISO 10646/Unicode(UTF-8),
  • CSS Files
  • HTML Files
  • JSP Files

At this point there are two methods of setting up the Project, manual or automatic.