cp1252

Apologies if this is a very amateurish question! I know Eclipse uses Cp1252 as the default for its encoding. I recently created a program using hash maps to convert letters input to Braille. To do this, I had to change the encoding method to UTF-8. I know very little about either, but everything I've read indicates UTF-8 can represent every character in Unicode and has a much bigger library of recognised symbols. Why then is it not the preferred encoding style for Eclipse? When you start Eclipse against a brand new workspace, Eclipse has to decide which encoding to use, by default, when

I have some Greek comments in the code and when I enter a Greek letter it says "Save us UTF-8" Then if I do so and re run the program the previously displayed Strings would not work properly. For example I'm working on an encryption algorithm(Simplified Des) and this is what I get with the Cp1252 encoding in the text editor as output: ÅO [áa[aá»j×jt INFO BOB 57674 the first line is the encrypted version and the second is the decrypted version this is what I get when I change the encoding to UTF-8 �O [�a[a�j�jt ���NFO���BOB���7���74 I don't understand what's going on here, I've never seen

I wrote a android app in java to get user answers and save them in a file. The problem is that this file is saved in utf-8. The end user will open these files in the IBM SPSS, an application for windows that can read files only in ANSI (windows-1252). How do I create files in ANSI code to save in a ssd-card from java-android app? I think I know that to convert Strings to ANSI I should use: String unicode = new String(asciiBytes, "windows-1252"); Is that correct? My code to save the file is this: File interviewFile = new File(placeOfSDD, fileName); FileWriter writer = new FileWriter

I am trying to write a Java app that will run on a linux server but that will process files generated on legacy Windows machines using cp-1252 as the character set. Is there anyway to encode these files as utf-8 instead of the cp-1252 it is generated as? If the file names as well as content is a problem, the easiest way to solve the problem is setting the locale on the Linux machine to something based on ISO-8859-1 rather than UTF-8 . You can use locale -a to list available locales. For example if you have en_US.iso88591 you could use: export LANG=en_US.iso88591 This way Java will use ISO-8859

I'm working on a series of parsers where I get a bunch of tracebacks from my unit tests like: File "c:\Python31\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0] UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x81 in position 112: character maps to <undefined> The files are opened with open() with no extra arguemnts. Can I pass extra arguments to open() or use something in the codec module to open these differently? This came up with code that was written in Python 2 and converted to 3 with the 2to3 tool. UPDATE: it turns out

How can I use/display characters like ♥, ♦, ♣, or ♠ in Java/Eclipse? When I try to use them directly, e.g. in the source code, Eclipse cannot save the file. What can I do? Edit: How can I find the unicode escape sequence? The problem is that the characters you are using cannot be represented in the encoding you have the file set to (Cp1252). The way I see it, you essentially have two options: Option 1. Change the encoding. According to IBM , you should set the encoding to UTF-8. I believe this would solve your problem. Set the global text file encoding preference Workbench > Editors to "UTF-8"