I need to use a few Cyrillic characters in a Java file and in order for Eclipse to allow me to do so I need to change the encoding for that file (currently to UTF-8).
Are there any problems that this could cause?
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I need to use a few Cyrillic characters in a Java file and in order for Eclipse to allow me to do so I need to change the encoding for that file (currently to UTF-8).
Are there any problems that this could cause?
If the eclipse setting ever gets lost, or the program is built outside eclipse, the cyrillic characters could get corrupted without anyone noticing until the program performs the operations depending on them. This may or may not be an acceptable risk.
Assuming that this is about the program described in this question, a more robust alternative would be to put the cyrillic characters in an external file instead of directly into the source code, and parse that file using UTF-8 explicitly.