Special characters (äöü) not shown correctly in eclipse tree view plug in

Question

I am developing an eclipse plugin with a simple tree view.

I have the problem that in some distributions of eclipse (Luna, Kepler, Mars) the special characters (äöü) in the tree entries are not shown correctly. Just some cryptic letters appear. Strange thing is, that in my installation (mars2) everything is displayed correct. After comparing lots of settings in the different distributione I could not figure out what setting or plug in is influencing this behaviour.

Any hint that brings me further to a solution is appreaciated. Thanks!

Sounds like an encoding problem. This might help you (or at least point you in the right direction): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33607828/how-to-change-the-default-default-encoding-in-eclipse — Thomas, Jun 20 '16 at 15:32
Where are you getting the accented characters from? Are you sure the Unicode values are correct in the Java strings that you set in the tree? Can the font the tree is using display these characters? — greg-449, Jun 20 '16 at 15:39

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

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Thanks to the hint from greg-449 I am reading the sources now directly encoded in UTF8:

            BufferedReader breader = new BufferedReader(
                new InputStreamReader(
                           new FileInputStream(file), "UTF8"));

Surprisingly this also diplays the characters in the tree view correctly ... :-)

Thanks for the help!

edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

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answered Jun 21 '16 at 14:53

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