Results encoding in Scala Worksheet Eclipse plugin

Question

How can I change charset encoding for results in the Worksheet in Eclipse?

object workbook1 {
\"cyrillic A is: \" + \"А\"  //> res0: String(\"cyrylic A is         


        

Answer 1

Many thanks to @Excelan's original question and solution as it definitely got me pointed in the right direction!

I was experiencing this problem using the Scala Eclipse IDE when working with new projects I created, but was not experiencing the problem when using imported projects. Once I saw Excelan's comment about the encoding I started poking around, you can change the Eclipse default text file encoding for all projects in the Preferences like so:

 Open Preferences
 Expand the "General" menu.
 Select the "Workspace" menu.
 Change "Text file encoding" option from Default to Other and select UTF-8.

Once I followed those steps, closed and reopened eclipse. Every new worksheet created after that works just fine!

To change the settings on a project level, right click the project and select properties. The text file encoding is found under the "Resources" menu.

To change the settings for a single file, right click the file and select properties. The text file encoding is found under the "Resources" menu.

Answer 2

This happens because JVM handles input strings as encoded with system default (cp1251 in my case)

You should say to JVM that input strings are in UTF-8 To do this, put into your eclipse.ini:

-Dfile.encoding=UTF8

If there is better (project local) solution, please let me know. This seems to be Windows-only related question.