How to support UTF-8 encoding in Eclipse

Question

How can I add UTF-8 support in eclipse? I want to add for example Russian language but eclipse won't support it. What should I do? Please guide me.

Solution 1

Try this

• 1) Window > Preferences > General > Content Types, set UTF-8 as the default encoding for all content types.

• 2) Window > Preferences > General > Workspace, set Text file encoding to Other : UTF-8

Solution 2

Open Eclipse and do the following steps:

1. Window -> Preferences -> Expand General and click Workspace, text file encoding (near bottom) has an encoding chooser.
2. Select "Other" radio button -> Select UTF-8 from the drop down
3. Click Apply and OK button OR click simply OK button

Solution 3

You can set a default encoding-set whenever you run eclipse.exe.

1. Open eclipse.ini in your eclipse home directory Or STS.ini in case of STS(Spring Tool Suite)
2. put the line below at the end of the file

-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8

Solution 4

Just right click the Project -- Properties and select Resource on the left side menu.

You can now change the Text-file encoding to whatever you wish.

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Comments

[soulcheck]

do you want to use translated eclipse or simply change the file encoding?

[Nyerguds]

Is this about code, or resources? UTF-8 resource support takes a bit more work.

[Ripon Al Wasim]

I need Chinese language support in eclipse for Selenium WebDriver tests.

[Stijn de Witt]

I wrote a blog post about this very topic which illustrates this in great detail (with screenshots etc): Unicode/UTF-8 in your Eclipse Java projects

[Kaushik Lele]

I am not able to accept UTF-8 characters as input from console. Scanner sc=new Scanner(System.in); sc.nextLine(); here if I give non-English characters it gets something garbage. What changes needed in setting or in program ?

[meustrus]

Kaushik Lele: Your question does not relate the the question asked here. I invite you to search for your solution in other questions, or if none exist, ask your own question.

[Nyerguds]

That is pretty awful... surely the encoding of a project should be dependent on the project, not on the global Eclipse settings?

[Ralph]

@Nyerguds: In the Package Explorer, right-click on a project and choose Properties'. The first entry Resource' offers exactly what you want.

[Vibhav Singh Rohilla]

@sajan : your answer saved my production solr-app deployment..! Thanks a ton..!

[Ripon Al Wasim]

I followed the steps you mentioned above and changed into UTF-8 for console printing for Chinese an Russian languages. But unfortunately it didn't work.

[softwarevamp]

Why Default encoding of JS Object Notation File not works for *.json?