changing the encoding for eclipse

Question

I want to change the encoding for eclipse to UTF-8

Answer 1

Go to Window > Preference > General > Workspace and on the "Text file encoding" panel select UTF-8

Answer 2

using Eclipse 3.* (I think it didn't change since 3.0)

Click on menu "Window/preferences"

Select General/Workspace.

it will show you a panel containing a sub-panel titled "Text file encoding", letting you choose either default platform one or a specific one.