Change The Character Encoding

Answer 1

See the accepted answer to this question:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/200691/how-to-use-special-chars-in-java-eclipse

Answer 2

from this mail thread--> dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/cdt-dev/msg16205.html

So I can reliably make the problem come and go using Preferences > C/C++ > Environment. There I set LANG to en_US.UTF-8 (what it was from cmd line environment) then the problem comes back when i launch from Finder. So launching from the command line, I can UNset it there (hit "Undefine" button for that env. variable which shows its value as !! ) to fix it.