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user1005633

Reputation: 755

Eclipse UTF-8-weird characters

I am writing a program in java with Eclipse IDE, and i want to write my comments in Greek. So i changed the encoding from Window->Preferences->General->Content Types->Text->Java Source File, to UTF-8. The comments in my code are ok but when i run my program some words contains weird characters e.g San Germ�n (San Germán). If i change the encoding to ISO-8859-1, all are ok when i run the program but the comments in my code are not(weird characters !). So, what is going wrong with it?

Edit: My program is in java swing and the weird characters with UTF-8 are Strings in cells of a JTable.

EDIT(2): Ok, i solve my problem i keep the UTF-8 encoding for java file but i change the encoding of the strings. String k = new String(myStringInByteArray,ISO-8859-1);

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3259

Answers (1)

Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen

Reputation: 75376

This is most likely due to the compiler not using the correct character encoding when reading your source. This is a very common source of error when moving between systems.

The typical way to solve it is to use plain ASCII (which is identical in both Windows 1252 and UTF-8) and the "\u1234" encoding scheme (unicode character 0x1234), but it is a bit cumbersome to handle as Eclipse (last time I looked) did not transparently support this.

The property file editor does, though, so a reasonable suggestion could be that you put all your strings in a property file, and load the strings as resources when needing to display them. This is also an excellent introduction to Locales which are needed when you want to have your application be able to speak more than one language.

Upvotes: 2

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