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 ## Preparations
 
-To build DroidFish, you need a working eclipse installation with git support.
+To build DroidFish, you need a working eclipse installation with git support. To make eclipse correctly handle UTF-8 encoded source files, go to Window > Preferences > General > Workspace and change "Text file encoding" to UTF-8.
 
 ## Building DroidFish