eclipse-platform / eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform

Reset preference should set the encoding to UTF-8

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Description

If a project does not have an explicit encoding set, we can a warning. But I reset the preference to default, I get encoding from the container. This feels wrong, I suggest we change our default to use UTC-8 encoding.

Current behavior:

Before reset:

![image](https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform/assets/139910/6421ab34-4331-4734-b40a-ff7bdf75ac8b)

After reset:

![image](https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform/assets/139910/1e3a089c-9d10-4979-a17e-1deab636fd03)

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