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I needed to add the Euro symbol to a Javascript (.js) file but Eclipse would not let me do this, when saving I got a dialog box which said “Save could not be completed” and explained that the character was not supported by the ISO-8859-1 character encoding.

I then went to Window > Preferences and then to MyEclipse > Files & Editors > JavaScript and then in the Editing Files section I changed the encoding to UTF-16

This allowed me to save the file I had edited and at this point I thought everything was fine.

However, when I then tried to edit a different JavaScript file (which had obviously last been saved with the original character encoding) the file opened as a string of strange oriental-looking characters. When I then tried to close the file Eclipse froze and after half an hour of waiting for it to sort itself out with no success I had to terminate the application.

Also, when a colleague of mine who had not changed his file encoding got the file I had saved with the Euro symbol in from CVS he experienced the same problem of strange looking characters followed by the application crashing.

Please advise whether this is a bug and what we can do to work around it if anything.

Thanks,
James Packer

Installation summary:

*** Date:
13 March 2007 10:50:08 o’clock GMT

** System properties:
OS=WindowsXP
OS version=5.1
Java version=1.5.0_08

*** MyEclipse details:
MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench
Version: 5.1.0 GA
Build id: 20061111-5.1.0-GA

*** Eclipse details:
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Eclipse Graphical Editing Framework

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Eclipse Platform

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Build id: M20060921-0945

Eclipse RCP

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Build id: M20060921-0945

Eclipse Java Development Tools

Version: 3.2.1.r321_v20060905-R4CM1Znkvre9wC-
Build id: M20060921-0945

Eclipse Project SDK

Version: 3.2.1.r321_v20060801-tQ1w49KnTArT0FZ
Build id: M20060921-0945

Eclipse startup command=-os
win32
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-arch
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-name
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-vm
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[Riyad Kalla]

James,
This sounds like something I would like to test right away. Can you send me a simple project with a JS file in it with this strange character so I can test the issue?

support@genuitec.com ATTN Riyad, with a link to this thread for reference please.

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