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 === Editing .properties files ===
-While eclipse can natively open .properties files, they will appear in their ASCII form which is not very pretty if your language uses other Unicode characters. You can install the [http://propedit.sourceforge.jp/index_en.html Properties editor plugin] which provides additional syntax highlighting and handles the Unicode conversion. Follow [http://propedit.sourceforge.jp/howto_eclipseplugin_install_en.html these instructions] to install the plugin.
+You can safely use UTF-8 for .properties files these days. There are still some ASCII-based files in our CVS repository, though, so while eclipse can natively open .properties files, they will appear in their ASCII form which is not very pretty if your language uses other Unicode characters. You can install the [http://propedit.sourceforge.jp/index_en.html Properties editor plugin] which provides additional syntax highlighting and handles the Unicode conversion. Follow [http://propedit.sourceforge.jp/howto_eclipseplugin_install_en.html these instructions] to install the plugin.
 == Locale Inspector ==