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Hi!
The problem with this is that Erlang source files are still supposed to be encoded in ISO8859-1. See http://erlang.org/doc/apps/stdlib/unicode_usage.html#2.3 for details:

2.3 Basic language support for Unicode
First of all, Erlang is still defined to be written in the ISO-latin-1
character set. Functions have to be named in that character set, atoms
are restricted to ISO-latin-1 and regular strings are still lists of
characters 0..255 in the ISO-latin-1 encoding. This has not (yet)
changed, but the language has been slightly extended to cope with
Unicode characters and encodings.

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Also the source code is (for now) still expected to be written using
the ISO-latin-1 character set, why Unicode characters beyond that
range cannot be entered in string literals.

Comments are in the same category, because the lexical scanner assumes
ISO 8859-1 encoding.

So the only thing we can do until that is supported is to give a more
meaningful message.

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This was posted as https://www.assembla.com/spaces/erlide/tickets/338.

We won't be doing anything until OTP changes the source file encoding, because Eclipse gets confused and shows weird characters.

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ok, thank you, i got it .

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hi, when i write my .erl file with encoding utf8, it works well with erlc. why?

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Hi,
I think that erlc is more forgiving, because it simply ignores the content in the comments. Eclipse needs to know the encoding of the file and unfortunately Latin1 and UTF-8 are incompatible, we have to choose one of them. The official encoding is Latin1, that's why we chose it.
best regards,
Vlad

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