How to change default text file encoding in Eclipse

Question

Whenever I add a new html file  or other text file  to the project its encoding is set to Cp1250  I am not sure why  I guess this is probably because my default language in Windows is Polish and I don t want to change it  Anyway  Eclipse says that Cp1250 is a  default  encoding and I have to manually change it to UTF-8 each time I add anything   So where can I change the default encoding to UTF-8  I ve set the encoding by right-clicking on whole project but it didn t help  I can t find anything in options  It s so annoying     I m using  Helios  release of the eclipse and use it with pydev if that matters

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I was having the same problem when I received a html to put inside my project and rename it to .jsp. To solve the problem, I needed to what people above already said, that is, to change text encoding in Eclipse Preferences. However, before renaming the files to .jsp, it was necessary to include the following line in the beginning of each .html file:

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"
pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>

I believe this forced Eclipse to understand that it was necessary to change file encoding when I tried to rename .html to .jsp.

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To change the default encoding used for all workspaces you can do the following   Create a defaults ini file in the Eclipse configuration folder  For example  if Eclipse is installed in C  Eclipse create C  Eclipse configuration defaults ini  The file should contain   org eclipse core resources encoding UTF-8   If you want to set the line terminator to UNIX values you can also add   org eclipse core runtime line separator  n   In eclipse ini in the Eclipse install folder  e g   C  Eclipse  add the following lines   -plugincustomization  D  Java Eclipse configuration defaults ini   You might need to play around with where you put it  Inserting it before the  -product  option seemed to work

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What worked for me in Eclipse Mars was to go to Window   Preferences   Web   HTML Files  and in the right panel in Encoding select ISO 10646 Unicode UTF-8   Apply and OK  then and only then my  html files were created with

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If you need to edit files of same type with more encodings in different folders and projects  e g  one project is in UTF-8 and other in Windows-12xx   go to Window   Preferences   General   Content Types   Text   and select each type with multiple encodings   For each type delete content of the Default encoding and click Update   This way Eclipse will not  autodetect  encoding and will use encoding set for project or folder

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Window -  Preferences -  General -  Workspace   Text file encoding

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Window Preferences Web JSP files

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Preferences    General    Editors    Text editors    Spelling  Enconding  P S   Eclipse Indigo and Juno

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For eclipse Mars   Change Workspace Encoding     Check a file Encoding

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Nanda s answer wasn t enough in my setup  What I needed to do is    Window   Preferences   General   Content Types Select Text   HTML in the tree Select all file associations  particularly  html Input  UTF-8  in the text-field  default encoding

[eclipse] How to change default text file encoding in Eclipse?

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