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Build ID: TCF 1.1 nightly 2012-10-17 on Eclipse 4.2.1 SDK In Asian countries, multiple encodings are possible (eg Shift-JIS or UTF-16) and it may happen that in one terminal session it is desired to switch the current encoding. I haven't validated that this is a real need, but it is a possibility and change of behavior compared to the TM Legacy Terminal View. There may actually be other settings too which one would like to change during a session, such as specifying a logfile for logging terminal I/O ... so providing a "Properties" dialog for properties of the current connection seems like a good idea for changing encoding. For showing the current encoding, a tooltip hover over the tab may be good enough (instead of the "date" which is currently shown there .. not sure what I would want the date for).
Martin, the encoding as shown in the status line, together with the terminal state. The date tells you when you have started that terminal. This can help a user to identify a terminal session more precisely if the user opens more than one session to the same host at different times. For me this is a far better identifier than having "<host> (1)", "<host> (2)" and so on.
Add a "Switch Encoding..." context menu action. http://git.eclipse.org/c/tcf/org.eclipse.tcf.git/commit/?id=1abcb21638ce8c23bdd98b6ae9d7d8867eab1cf8
