I think I found answer on the linux forum. Ignore the pop-up just type-in your encoding name "cp1252" in the input field
 (in Worspace preferences).


Mario Charest wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Elena Laskavaia [mailto:community-noreply@qnx.com]
>> Sent: February-20-09 9:46 AM
>> To: general-ide
>> Subject: Re: Encoding
>>
>> I guess we don't have such problem because we are not writing docs and
>> code in other languages.
>> For personal use UTF8 works fine for me. But we have lots of customers
>> in Germany and Japan and I have not heard them complaining...
> 
> Handling Japanese would require using UTF in the first place, on all machines.  I don`t think German have extra 
character that are >127...  
> 
>> Maybe they don't use Linux... Did you search inet on this problem?
>>
> 
> Yes I did and came up empty.  So far it seems my only solution would be to use ISO-8559-1 which looks like it`s close 
enough.  Or convert everything to UTF-8 but that would become a real mess, I can just imagine someone editing a file 
with notepad under Windows, oh boy.  Would have been so simple if Eclipse/Java supplied CP1252 encoding.  Don't you get 
the feeling sometime someone is out there making sure your life is complicated enough ;-)
> 
>> Mario Charest wrote:
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Elena Laskavaia [mailto:community-noreply@qnx.com]
>>>> Sent: February-20-09 9:31 AM
>>>> To: general-ide
>>>> Subject: Re: Encoding
>>>>
>>>> I know how to change encoding in eclipse. Window->Preferences-
>>> General-
>>>>> Workspace - There is a preference at the bottom.
>>>
>>> Yeah but on Linux ( Ubuntu ) cp-1252 isn`t available.  How do you
>> manage file compatibility between a Linux and Windows host?
>>>> On Linux terminal apps it is just works for me (I use vim sometimes
>>>> (utf8))
>>>>
>>>> Mario Charest wrote:
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: Elena Laskavaia [mailto:community-noreply@qnx.com]
>>>>>> Sent: February-19-09 5:21 PM
>>>>>> To: general-ide
>>>>>> Subject: Re: Encoding
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Set LANG env var. For example
>>>>>> LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (for terminal apps)
>>>>> Doesn't work for vi, which probably has its own setting somewhere.
>>>> Elena given your reply I assume you know of no way to add cp1252
>>>> encoding to Linux/Eclipse.  Internally how do QNX people deal with
>> this
>>>> issue, or are you simply not using any character >127  ;-)
>>>>>> Mario Charest wrote:
>>>>>>> Starting to work on Linux I got bitten by character encoding that
>>>> is
>>>>>> different on Windows and Linux.  To keep it simple I would have
>> like
>>>>>> switch Linux to cp1252 but it's not available. I look on the web
>> but
>>>>>> found no solution aside switching to UTF8 which is not currently
>> an
>>>>>> option for me; how would you get a pterm/vi to understand UTF8.
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