Eclipse:Using UTF-8 encoding in the text editor make the Strings not work properly, how can I fix that?

Question

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 anything like this before. Can someone help me? Thank you in advance

Answer 1

There's (at least) one discussion here on SO about Should source code be saved in UTF-8 format or not.

Personally, I'd advise against it. I'd much rather use the \uXXXX notation to encode those Greek characters in the source code and keep the other settings untouched.