Eclipse encoding conversion

Question

Does anyone know of any eclipe plugin that lets you easily change and use file encodings? I sometimes need to edit template files to do small tweaks, but the files are sometimes ISO, sometimes UTF8, sometimes others, so using eclipse for this leads to disaster :)

Answer 1

Try this for converting one file:

1. Copy the whole Content of your file to the clipboard (by pressing ctrl+c or cmd+c on Mac)
2. Right-Click on the file, then open "Properties" and change the text file encoding to the preferred one
3. Press ctrl-a (or cmd-a on Mac) to select the whole text and replace it with the content of your clipboard (ctrl-v or cmd-v)

Source: http://artur.ejsmont.org/blog/Convertig-file-encoding-to-UTF-8-from-other-Unicode-and-removing-Byte-Order-Marks

Worked on my Mac!

Answer 2

Changing the encoding in the Properties does the exact opposite of transcoding the file: it reinterprets the file's contents as if it were encoded in the specified encoding. This is useful too, but is not the functionality Prody wants.

There is apparently no way to actually transcode a file within Eclipse.

Answer 3

This should be in the Properties of each file.

Under the "Info" header, there is a "Text File encoding" group. You can change the selection to "Other", and choose the desired encoding from there.