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Encoding problems [message #651395]

Sun, 30 January 2011 11:30

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Messages: 2
Registered: January 2011

Junior Member

Hi,
I hope this is the right place to ask this kind of question.

I've got an eclipse project/git repository that uses ISO8859-encoded files. When I compare files (Compare With/Git Index...), lines with special characters are shown as differences (as if the working tree copy was ISO-encoded, but the index copy UTF8-encoded).

When I do the same thing from the command line (git diff file.c) everything's just fine. (If it matters: my system (newest Ubuntu) uses UTF-8 encoding.)

When I change the properties of the file in eclipse (Properties/Resource/Text file encoding) comparison works fine, but normal editing does not (special characters are shown as ?.

Am I doing anything wrong? Or is this a bug?

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Re: Encoding problems [message #651615 is a reply to message #651395]

Mon, 31 January 2011 21:28

Robin Rosenberg

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Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

stm_@users.sourceforge.net skrev 2011-01-30 12:30:
> Hi,
> I hope this is the right place to ask this kind of question.
> I've got an eclipse project/git repository that uses ISO8859-encoded
> files. When I compare files (Compare With/Git Index...), lines with
> special characters are shown as differences (as if the working tree copy
> was ISO-encoded, but the index copy UTF8-encoded).
> When I do the same thing from the command line (git diff file.c)
> everything's just fine. (If it matters: my system (newest Ubuntu) uses
> UTF-8 encoding.)
>
> When I change the properties of the file in eclipse
> (Properties/Resource/Text file encoding) comparison works fine, but
> normal editing does not (special characters are shown as ?.
>
> Am I doing anything wrong? Or is this a bug?

We try to be smart and don't succeed too well. In some cases it might
be hard to solve tbis problem, but I think you see a bug, i.e.
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=333310

-- robin

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Re: Encoding problems [message #651624 is a reply to message #651615]

Mon, 31 January 2011 22:55

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Messages: 2
Registered: January 2011

Junior Member

Thanks for the quick answer. Yes, this sounds like my bug. I hope you're able to fix it. It's a bit annoying because I eventually managed to mess up all my non-ISO characters and had to reset everything manually. I'll be more careful now...

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