Changing project encodings in NetBeans 6.5
I reported that NetBeans 6.1′s project charset encoding feature would allow an unsuspecting user to destroy file data. That’s still true…through no fault of NetBeans really. It’s just a matter of fact — if you start out with UTF-8 and convert your project files to ASCII or ISO-8859-1 or any other subset of Unicode, you will lose any characters that are not also in the target charset.
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