eclipseeclipse-pluginerlangerlide

ErlIDE Erlang tools do not support source files encoded in UTF-8


I have istalled ErlIDE plugin to Eclipse, and created project. In project I added new erlang module but when I want to edit it I get error

Could not open the editor: Erlang tools do not support source files encoded in UTF-8

Is it bug of ErlIDE? Or erlang doesn't support UTF8?


Solution

  • From Erlang documentation:

    Also the source code is (for now) still expected to be written using the ISO-latin-1 character set, why Unicode characters beyond that range cannot be entered in string literals.

    See this thread for more details.