Supporting Languages Other than English

Enable the use of characters in languages other than English.

Context

To enable the use of characters in languages other than English:

Procedure

  1. Navigate to the location where Eclipse is installed on your computer.
  2. Open the eclipse.ini file for editing and add the following in a new line: -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
  3. Restart Eclipse. Your default encoding in eclipse is changed to UTF-8.
  4. In Eclipse, select  Window> Preferences> General> Workspace.
  5. In the Text file encoding section, make sure UTF-8 is selected either as the default or as an option in the Other radio button.