Eclipse: “Refactor - Rename” completely messed up, replacing arbitrary characters in file

Question

When refactoring a class name, Eclipse lately shows a very strange behavior. For example, let\'s look at one of our classes:

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Answer 1

That's annoying. Obviously the refactoring engine knows that it has to replace something but replaces characters at a wrong position... - no answer but some additional ideas/tests

1. Looks like you check out complete projects. Try to import sources only to a fresh project to check if the problem still occurs or if its gone.
2. If project metadata has been checked in (it shouldn't, but we never know), clean the project right after checking the project out.
3. Check the character encoding of that companies source files. Maybe there's some sort of mismatch which causes the editor to replace on wrong positions. And double check the source files for strange unprintable ascii bytes... again, we never know...