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Bug 97675

Summary:	[Preferences] Pref Page General/Editors/Content Types problems - Default Charset
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Sebastian Davids <sdavids>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	eclipse
Version:	3.1	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Sebastian Davids

2005-05-31 15:17:44 EDT

What does the Update button do? -> Tooltip?

Under which circumstances is it enabled?

What does it actually do: if I fill garbage into the text and press Update
nothing happens.

Shouldn't be the text a combo filled with the same values as
General/Editors/Text File Endcoding/Other?

Comment 1 Kim Horne

2005-05-31 15:24:28 EDT

Rafael, is that last point valid?  Could that be a combo or will arbitrary values be acceptable here?

Comment 2 Rafael Chaves

2005-05-31 15:36:58 EDT

The same encoding control used in the resources properties could be used. It
does not restrict valid values to those appearing in the list, it only makes
sure the string is a valid charset name. 

Kim, note that #setDefaultCharset takes anything. If you pass an invalid string,
users will have trouble opening files belonging to that content type. The empty
string is acceptable, and is interpreted by the framework as if the content type
has no default encoding. Null is also acceptable, and means the default encoding
setting is inherited from the base content type (if any).

Ideally, the preference page should allow users to tweak the encoding setting
according to those rules. But I guess this is might be too much work for 3.1.

Comment 3 Susan McCourt

2009-07-09 19:27:25 EDT

As per http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/Bug_Triage_Change_2009

Comment 4 Eclipse Webmaster

2019-09-06 15:35:01 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

Comment 5 Eclipse Genie

2022-02-21 16:44:06 EST

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. As such, we're closing this bug.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it and reopen this bug. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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