Home/ Questions/Q 721557
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-14T05:53:13+00:00

I’m using Eclipse in Ubuntu to edit PHP files. But, unfortunately, some of these

  • 0

I’m using Eclipse in Ubuntu to edit PHP files.

But, unfortunately, some of these PHP files were created in Notepad++ in Windows XP, with ANSI encoding defined.

Also, these files generates HTML codes with charset=ISO-8859-1.

When I configured Eclipse to ISO-8859-1, many special characters were lost and changed to ‘???’, and when I try to save a file with ISO enconding, Eclipse displays an error that was not possible to save the file because some characters aren’t compatible with the charset.

How can I save these files without changing the encoding, or how can I change the encoding without lose characters.

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    To the point, you need to read those files using ANSI encoding and then write those files using ISO-8859-1 encoding. In Notepad++ you can change the encoding by Format menu option. Unfortunately there’s no ISO-8859-1 option, but UTF-8 should suffice and is nowadays also the preferred choice for world domination since the ISO-8859-1 encoding only covers latin characters, not for example Cyrillic, Greek, Chinese, Arabic, etcetera.

    • 0