title: Why does Eclipse use Cp1252 encoding?
body: <p>Apologies if this is a very amateurish question! I know Eclipse uses Cp1252 as the default for its encoding.<br>
  I recently created a program using hash maps to convert letters input to Braille. To do this, I had to change the encoding method to UTF-8.  </p>
  
  <p>I know very little about either, but everything I've read indicates UTF-8 can represent every character in Unicode and has a much bigger library of recognised symbols.  </p>
  
  <p>Why then is it not the preferred encoding style for Eclipse?</p>