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Strange characters (or encoding ?) in tooltips and descriptions [message #721139]

Wed, 31 August 2011 20:14

Eclipse User

Hi

I'm using Indigo 3.7.0.I20110613-1736 with CDT 8.0.0.201106081058 under Win32 XP and I'm currently facing strange tooltips with additional characters surrounding identifiers.

Check http:**f6fvy.free.fr*eclipseBug*eclipseBug1.png (Please replace * by / as it is my first message, and the editor doesn't allow links for newcomers).

It also appears in the 'Problems" tabs :

Check http:**f6fvy.free.fr*eclipseBug*eclipseBug2.png (Please replace * by /)

It seems to be related only with texts including names of a variable, type etc. and not to error messages without reference to the source file.

Any hint on that ? Did I missed something ?

Thanks !

Re: Strange characters (or encoding ?) in tooltips and descriptions [message #721319 is a reply to message #721139]

Thu, 01 September 2011 09:03

Eclipse User

Those messages are parsed from eclipse console and the problem is that that console does not recognize UTF-8 encoding. See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=299376 for workaround:

Quote:

It is possible to define environment variable LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1 in Window->Preferences->C/C++->Build->Environment to stop cygwin displaying UTF-8.

Andrew

Re: Strange characters (or encoding ?) in tooltips and descriptions [message #721323 is a reply to message #721319]

Thu, 01 September 2011 09:27

Eclipse User

Thanks Andrew !

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