I need to enter some French chars in eclipse. How do I configure eclipse to enter French? I do have all the fonts that come with default eclipse packaging.
A:
AFAIK, Eclipse, like most (all?) Java applications, uses UTF8 as its normal character set. Thus, it is not Eclipse that needs to be changed to enter French characters, but your operating system (specifically the keyboard layout). You'll probably find it easier to figure out whatever escape sequences your OS uses to enter characters not representable on your keyboard. On Windows, you can do this with the Character Map utility available under Accessories. I'm not sure how to do it on other platforms.
rmeador
2009-10-22 20:49:59
did I misunderstand the OP's question? I read it not as how to configure eclipse to accept the characters (which you and I are in agreement that it does by default), but how to actually enter said characters, which is addressed in my answer. I have difficulty reading it such that your answer actually answers the question.
rmeador
2009-10-22 21:09:00
@rmeador: I very well might have misinterpreted the question. Hopefully, the OP will clarify it.
VonC
2009-10-22 21:33:06
I have fonts installed on my machine. Also eclipse default encoding is set to UTF-8. In wordpad, I can type in french by just using Left Alt + Shift key to switch language. How do I do that for eclipse? I also tried chaning fonts in eclipse.
tom
2009-10-23 15:29:42