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Bug 329130

Summary:	[nls tooling] Properties file editor should not translate non-ISO-8859-1 characters if properties file has UTF-8 encoding
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Peter Stibrany <peter>
Component:	Text	Assignee:	Deepak Azad <deepakazad>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert, markus.kell.r, raksha.vasisht
Version:	3.7
Target Milestone:	3.7 M4
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Peter Stibrany

2010-10-30 04:21:01 EDT

Build Identifier: Version: 3.7.0 Build id: I20101028-1441

Eclipse 3.7M3 introduced auto-escaping of typed and pasted non-ISO-8859-1 characters in properties file editor. This is nice, but Java 1.6 supports loading properties file with different encodings than iso-8859-1 and therefore this escaping is no longer absolutely necessary.

In our project we keep properties files in UTF-8 and load them as such. Please make it possible to disable this auto-escaping feature, either by some configuration option, or better yet, by recognizing that properties file encoding is set to UTF-8 (or simply different than ISO-8859-1).


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Deepak Azad

2010-11-03 13:23:25 EDT

Fixed in HEAD in 
PropertiesFileAutoEditStrategy.java
PropertiesFileSourceViewerConfiguration.java
PropertiesFileAutoEditStrategyTest.java

The auto-escape feature now acts according to the properties file encoding.

Comment 2 Raksha Vasisht

2010-12-07 07:10:43 EST

Verified for 3.7 M4 with  I20101206-1800.