Supporting Languages Other than English

Enable the use of characters in languages other than English.

Context

To enable the use of characters in languages other than English:

Procedure

  1. Navigate to the location where Eclipse is installed on your computer.
  2. Open the eclipse.ini file for editing and add the following in a new line: -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
  3. Restart Eclipse. Your default encoding in eclipse is changed to UTF-8.
  4. In Eclipse, select Start of the navigation path Window Next navigation step Preferences Next navigation step General Next navigation step Workspace End of the navigation path.
  5. In the Text file encoding section, make sure UTF-8 is selected either as the default or as an option in the Other radio button.