Description Tom Roche 2007-01-19 14:54:49 EST

Build ID: I20061214-1445

Please make the default workspace encoding (i.e. Preferences>General>
Workspace>Text file encoding) for Windows more standard.

Cp1252 is not, strictly speaking, a standard encoding: it is at best a
"proprietary standard," the use of which made sense when few tools
supported more standard encodings, notably Unicode (e.g. UTF-8 or
UTF-16). That is no longer the case (e.g. Unicode support is
widespread); yet, at least as of 3.3-M4, Cp1252 remains the Eclipse
default for Windows.

Steps To Reproduce:

0 Pull down a vanilla Eclipse for win32.

1 Create a java file. Add a symbol which has a non-standard encoding
  in Cp1252 (empirically, copyright and Microsoft quotes are the major
  offenders).

2 Submit the file to a build with a compiler which expects a standard
  encoding (e.g. IBM's).

3 Result: something like

> <int/>. ERROR in <path to your file>
> Cannot read the source from <path to your file>; either the file uses a different encoding than UTF-8 or it is corrupted