FAQ

• I can't write comments or strings in Chinese (or other non-latin language)
• Erlide won't start!

I can't write comments or strings in Chinese (or other non-latin language)!

While Erlang has libraries that support unicode strings, the source files are still encoded as Latin-1. See for example http://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/stdlib/unicode_usage.html#id58126

2.3 Basic language support for Unicode

First of all, Erlang is still defined to be written in the ISO-latin-1 character set. Functions have to be named in that character set, atoms are restricted to ISO-latin-1 and regular strings are still lists of characters 0..255 in the ISO-latin-1 encoding. This has not (yet) changed, but the language has been slightly extended to cope with Unicode characters and encodings.

If you don't care about Latin-1, you can go to window->Preferences->General->Content types->Text->Erlang and change the default encoding to UTF-8. This will allow Eclipse to open and save files in utf-8, but there is no guarantee that other tools won't get confused by this (for example length of text is no longer the same as number of bytes).

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Erlide won't start!

Checklist:

• Did you configure it properly? See Configuration
• Is your local host name configured properly in /etc/hosts (or c:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts)?
• Have you checked the cookie settings (see here)?

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