Apologies if this is a very amateurish question! I know Eclipse uses Cp1252 as the default for its encoding.
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.
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.
Why then is it not the preferred encoding style for Eclipse?