RE: [WDSCI-L] Non-traditional encodings

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Mark Phippard
> 
> This is an Eclipse-level problem.  Here are some details on plans to
> resolve it in 3.0.  You might check some of the bug reports linked to
this
> document as they may contain some workarounds.

Actually, this is the part that has me confused.  The text editor
framework of Eclipse already supports some encoding, although the number
of encoding types is limited.  Look under Edit->Encoding in any of the
base text editors such as the Java editor, and you'll see a number of
character sets available.  You can also type in an encoding not on the
list, but I have so far been unable to find an encoding that will
display the appropriate Japanese glyphs.  I've tried CP932, CP943, SJIS
and Shift_JIS, all to no avail.

This is available only on a file by file basis, and is somehow attached
to that specific file.  The 3.0 changes you alluded to are more about
handling this on larger groupings - perhaps at the folder or project
level.  But as I said, the rudimentary support they have today doesn't
exactly work as expected.

And not even that rudimentary support is available on the WebSphere
extensions.  If you go to edit a JSP or HTML file, you will not be able
to change the encoding at all, much less be able to see your glyphs.
This is pretty strange, because the glyphs DO show up correctly when you
actually run the code and view the results in WDSC's browser.

Joe