Save Could not be completed. ECLIPSE ERROR

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Save could not be completed. Reason: Some characters cannot be mapped using "Cp1252" character encoding. Either change the encoding or remove the characters which are not supported by the "Cp1252" character encoding.

This is my problem while trying to change some of the codes of my project.and when I Remove the character or save as utf-8 the project will not run. Please Help me. Thank you so much in advance.

What kind of file? How is the project dependent on one character such that it "will not run" without it? — E-Riz, Feb 24 '12 at 05:33
possible duplicate of [Unable to create a file with foreign language characters](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3598117/unable-to-create-a-file-with-foreign-language-characters) — Brock Adams, Feb 25 '12 at 01:08
I got the same error message when I tried to do a refactor-move in Project Explorer. It turned out the problem was not with the file I was moving, but with files that imported it. The file I was moving was referenced by a huge number of files. Eclipse would not tell me which files where the problem. Had to resort to global replace of import statements--not fun. The suggestions below helped somewhat. — user2367418, Jun 13 '19 at 18:28

Jeetu · Answer 1 · 2013-03-02T10:42:46.147

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Remove all character/word in your class that are in language except English like japaneze or chaineaze etc.

otherwise

just copy your class from Eclipse and paste it to your System at any Location (C/desktop) and open it with your Editor (Notepad/Wordpad) and Edit it and save it and again copy it to your Eclipse> your project> your package

Thanks

edited Mar 02 '13 at 10:42

answered Oct 08 '12 at 10:25

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Tomer · Accepted Answer · 2018-04-23T19:04:29.983

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This might also happen when you try to do copy paste of code from other places such as PDF. The reason for this is because the eclipse doesn't all the time understand the characters that are from a PDF file.

The answer for this is to rewrite the code, or maybe copy pasting this through notepad (I personally never tried to copy through notepad)

edited Apr 23 '18 at 19:04

answered Feb 25 '16 at 08:26

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A bit wired solution but works. For some reason in my Eclipse SaveAs_UTF-8 does not show up. As go around follow Select all in document, create new document in notepad, save as desired name, open in Eclipse. – tomasz74 Jan 15 '19 at 14:21

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 30 '13 at 02:44

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I received a similar message when trying to edit a file in Eclipse. When I saved as UTF-8 I lost some of the characters in my document. I was able to get around this by:

Opening the file
Go to Edit > Set encoding...
Select Other
Select ISO-8859-1

answered Dec 30 '13 at 02:44

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 19 '13 at 18:37

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I had the same problem.

I put the file into Notepad and saved it. Notepad will tell you that some of the characters will be lost. The ones you are loosing are those hidden or hard to identify characters. Then you take that very text file you just stored and paste it into eclipse or whatever you are using.

answered Apr 19 '13 at 18:37

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Thanks! Always feels better to strip out the offending element rather than change settings to support it or workaround it – scubasteve Mar 13 '15 at 18:36

score 2 · Answer 5 · edited Feb 10 '14 at 17:47

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When my version of eclipse (ADT 22) showed this message, the pop up error window presented the choice

"Find First Character."

Using this option will show you the offending characters in the file. In my case they were in a //COMMENT! so I just delete them. Save then worked.

edited Feb 10 '14 at 17:47

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answered Feb 10 '14 at 17:20

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Can you be more specific? – Zeus Feb 10 '14 at 17:47

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Oct 06 '15 at 15:20

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You can solve this in 2 simple steps:

1) change the encoding settings of the file (Alt+Enter) to be UTF-8 or whatever you need.

2) Save the file in the editor.

answered Oct 06 '15 at 15:20

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score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Nov 11 '17 at 04:11

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I faced the same problem in eclipse. Then I found out that the file permissions somehow got changed. The problem was resolved once the write permission was added

answered Nov 11 '17 at 04:11

midhun mathew

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I faced the same issue. Got fixed by restoring correct file permissions – Jay Teli Jun 27 '19 at 09:03

score 1 · Answer 8 · edited Feb 25 '12 at 01:04

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When I have this issue, I save as utf-8 and there is no problem anymore.
If you save like this and it still doesn't work, there must be an error with the code. Sometimes, in XML, you have letters like this: đšćčš and that can be a problem.

edited Feb 25 '12 at 01:04

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answered Feb 23 '12 at 23:37

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score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Jul 19 '13 at 09:01

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Copy your codes > open notepad > save file > copy your codes from notepad > paste eclipse.

And save it.

answered Jul 19 '13 at 09:01

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score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Aug 13 '14 at 08:29

Eclipse has been known (from my personal experience) to change the encoding of a file (perhaps I accidentally pressed a shortcut key).. but it is not obvious from the settings that the file encoding has changed. The eclipse file settings seemed to imply they were all inherited and all US-ASCII. Then I went to use vi and tried the :set command (on a MacOS system), and found that the rest of my files were in UTF-8, but this one that was getting this problem, was in Latin1. "Save as UTF-8" solved the problem. Still don't know how it switched to Latin1.

score 0 · Answer 11 · answered Oct 07 '14 at 07:19

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Use this regular expression - [^\x00-\x7F] to find all non-standard characters and replace them with nothing. That worked for me.

answered Oct 07 '14 at 07:19

Orateng

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This will result in loosing the character or string – Renjith K N Dec 15 '14 at 10:53

score 0 · Answer 12 · answered Oct 27 '14 at 08:39

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This happened to me, when i had copied a source-code containing asian characters.

.append("월 ] ")

just use "saved UTF-8"

answered Oct 27 '14 at 08:39

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score 0 · Answer 13 · edited Jul 01 '17 at 22:31

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File img=new File("C:\\Users\\Ramakrishna\\Desktop\\Atal.jpg");

or

File img=new File("C:/Users/Ramakrishna/Desktop/Atal.jpg");

This line gave me problem. But the above solutions could not help me.I created a new package and recreated the class and wrote same line of code later it worked.

edited Jul 01 '17 at 22:31

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answered Jul 01 '17 at 18:30

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Please remove your answer. It has nothing to do with the problem of this question. – Heri Jul 01 '17 at 18:40

score 0 · Answer 14 · answered Sep 03 '19 at 11:21

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I faced the same issue, Then just copied all texts from the file and closed the file. Reopened it and pasted, this time eclipse allowed saving the file.

answered Sep 03 '19 at 11:21

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score 0 · Answer 15 · answered Jan 27 '21 at 04:59

If you are using maven and you just added some reporting plugins (in my case was: com.fasterxml.jackson.core). You can fix it by adding this to your pom.xml:

<properties>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
</properties>

Here's the detail: How to configure encoding in Maven?

score 0 · Answer 16 · answered Apr 12 '21 at 11:10

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In Eclipse -

Change the encoding settings of the file by --> Alt+Enter select - UTF-8 or whatever you need.
Save the file.
Error is gone :)

answered Apr 12 '21 at 11:10

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score 0 · Answer 17 · answered Dec 31 '21 at 14:25

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I was able to correct this problem in Eclipse by clicking File -> Properties. Then in Resource -> "Text file encoding" set to Other -> UTF-8. Though my problem was a little different. I wasn't able to save this � character in ISO-8859-1.

answered Dec 31 '21 at 14:25

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score 0 · Answer 18 · answered Aug 02 '23 at 09:09

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It happens mainly when you copy the text from another place and paste it into Eclipse. It simply did not find the value of that character and throws the error.

answered Aug 02 '23 at 09:09

Aditya kumar srivastav

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score -1 · Answer 19 · answered Jan 23 '14 at 13:48

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Open the Source Code from the workspace(C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\workspace\myfiori_1) in the notepad or wordpad and save it there. It will be reflected here on eclipse.

answered Jan 23 '14 at 13:48

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