[Allen Liang]

I upgraded my MyEclipse from 6.0 to 6.5 and found problems happening to French accent characters in properties files. If I open a properties file with French accent characters, some characters will show using different encoding like “\u00E9s” instead of “à“. How can I configurate MyEclipse so it won’t change the encoding?

Thanks a lot.

[Loyal Water]

Can you go to Windows > Prefs > General > Content Type > Text > Java Properties File and change the default encoding to UTF-8. I guess that should do the trick.

[Allen Liang]

No it didn’t work.
However we figured out a different solution. We use encoding ISO-8859-1 and open .properties files using:
right-click -> Open With -> Properties File Editor

This way MyEclipse won’t overwrite the accent characters.

[Loyal Water]

Glad you found a workaround.

[William Oliver]

Little bit more information that might help.

What maybe happening is the that the Windows Language Bar is trapping the “alt-shift” key press and toggling your keyboard “language” (reference http://www.conversationexchange.com/resources/keyboard-language.php). Depending on configuration of your language bar it might not just be French characters.

If you are not using alternative languages on your keyboard you can go into the settings of language bar and delete all the unused languages thus it won’t toggle. I have confirmed this works for XP on a couple systems but have not figured out how to disable it completely.

Bill

[support-shalini]

Harker,
Thank you for posting your findings.

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