Eclipse problem with symbol §

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Eclipse problem with symbol §

I'm using Eclipse for programming. In one method of my project i used the String "§". I use a svn repository. If i edit the file with Ubuntu OS the § symbol isnt displayed correctly in the eclipse editor and also in my programm, if I edited it before on Windows. The same is vice versa.

Any hints how to solve this problem? I don't want to always change the symbol manually if I comitted a new version from another OS

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Check the "Text file encoding" of your sources.
(Preferences / General / Workspace)

I would recommend in your case UTF-8.

You can also set the default type in Preferences / General / Content Type / Text / Java source file

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VonC 2010-07-06 13:48:52

Also, once the file encoding is changed you might have to retype the symbols that were broken.

DrDro 2010-07-06 13:55:48

thanks this solved the problem. But this is really annoying that this isn't the default setting. Now I have to inform all other contributers to the source code to change their settings...

Roflcoptr 2010-07-06 14:47:40

You can also change these setting only on given project (you have to right click on project and choose Properties).

Lukasz Stelmach 2010-07-07 10:51:28

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