How to change default text file encoding in Eclipse?

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Whenever I add a new html file (or other text file) to the project its encoding is set to Cp1250. I am not sure why, I guess this is probably because my default language in Windows is Polish and I don't want to change it. Anyway, Eclipse says that Cp1250 is a 'default' encoding and I have to manually change it to UTF-8 each time I add anything.

So where can I change the default encoding to UTF-8? I've set the encoding by right-clicking on whole project but it didn't help. I can't find anything in options. It's so annoying...

I'm using 'Helios' release of the eclipse and use it with pydev if that matters.

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To change the default encoding used for all workspaces you can do the following:

Create a defaults.ini file in the Eclipse configuration folder. For example, if Eclipse is installed in C:/Eclipse create C:/Eclipse/configuration/defaults.ini. The file should contain:

org.eclipse.core.resources/encoding=UTF-8

If you want to set the line terminator to UNIX values you can also add:

org.eclipse.core.runtime/line.separator=\n

In eclipse.ini in the Eclipse install folder (e.g., C:/Eclipse) add the following lines:

-plugincustomization 
D:/Java/Eclipse/configuration/defaults.ini

You might need to play around with where you put it. Inserting it before the "-product" option seemed to work.

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Window>Preferences>Web>JSP files

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