Today, I ran into a UTF-8 problem again. That was, when I copied a text snippet from Thunderbird into an Eclipse properties file. Be careful, when you copy-and-paste text from your e-mail nto your Eclipse editor. It looks like the encoding of the pasted text
is superior to the encoding of the existing text. It changed the endcoding f the file several times. Solution:

1. Copy the full property/text file into clipboard.
2. Close the file in Eclipse.
3. Open Notepad++ and set Format to UTF-8.
4. Paste the text from Clipboard into Notepad++.
5. Save the file as the one you want to have.
6. Reopen in Eclipse.
7. Encoding will be set to UTF-8.

Good luck!
Martin