Eclipse JSP: incorrect default text file encoding

Question

I\'ve got the following problem. I created a new \"Dynamic Web Project\" and imported some existing jsp files into it.

If i right click one of the imported jsp files an

Answer 1

It's not a bug, it's a feature

Eclipse didn't "determine" the correct encoding by scanning the file as like file or iconv commands on your shell.

Solution: Add following line to your JSP:

<%@ page pageEncoding="UTF-8" %>

This is a good Idea due to many Web-Container will force to deliver ISO-8859-1 encoded files nevertheless you have set the correct content type in your HTML Header.

FYI: Mismatching CharacterSets and file encodings will lead

• to characters like in "Schei� encoding" (Latin1 character in UTF8 (multiByte) context).
• If you got something like "für" it is indead a broken multibyte character (typically UTF-8) in a singleByte character context (Latin1 / ISO-8859-1 || ISO-8859-15 for Germans)