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The content type in preference page can't change the default encoding? [message #1386655]

Thu, 19 June 2014 08:46

Alex Liu

Messages: 2
Registered: June 2014

Junior Member

My JSP file's default page encoding and charset are ISO-8859-1, so when I hava some Chinese chars in the page, I will receive some errors, so I want to change the default encoding of the jsp files. at first I use "Windows-->Preferences-->Content Types-->Default Encoding", I changed it into UTF-8, however, when I created a new jsp file the default page encoding and charset are still ISO-8859-1:

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
    pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Insert title here</title>
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>

THEN, I change the "Windows-->Preferences-->Web-->JSP Files" and I change the encoding into UTF-8, and this time, when I create a new jsp file the page encoding and charset are UTF-8.
what's the difference between "Wondows-->Preferences-->General-->Content Types" and "Windows --> Preferences --> Web", why the former configuration can not change the default page encoding and charset of the JSP files?

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