title: How to change the *default* default encoding in Eclipse?
body: <p>Every time a new workspace is created, Eclipse defaults to Cp1250 encoding.</p>
  
  <p>Whenever I create a new branch of the project, and as result switch to a new workspace in Eclipse, I need to go to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3751791/how-to-change-default-text-file-encoding-in-eclipse">Window -> Preferences -> General -> Workspace : Text file encoding</a> and manually switch to "Other: UTF-8". If I forget this step, Eclipse mangles the UTF-8 characters in the project files.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/FqUe2.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/FqUe2.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>Can I change the default somehow, permanently, so that all new workspaces start as UTF-8 without need to switch them manually?</p>