After one week, the result is: a) UTF-8: 4 votes on user list + 2 previously on dev list b) same as source: 2 votes on user list 1 vote for platform encoding
Default encoding for reports will be UTF-8. Thanks for your participation. Regards, Hervé Le mardi 05 août 2008, Hervé BOUTEMY a écrit : > Dear community, > > The Maven team is currently discussing a proposal about the future handling > of reporting output file encoding by the various plugins, please see our > wiki article [0] for all details. > > A controversial aspect of this proposal is which file encoding should be > assumed in case the user did not specify this in the POM. This poll should > help us to come to a well-founded decision. > > These are the two possible directions to go: > > a) use fixed UTF-8 encoding > > b) use same encoding as source files > > > Approach a) is simple and sould work for everybody, since any character can > be output in UTF-8. > Approach b) is more subtle and mimics the behaviour of javadoc tool. Since > reports contain more data than source content, there are cases where this > default value won't be appropriate (for example, if project's description > in pom.xml contains characters that can't be output with source files > encoding). > > > So, please let us know: > > [a] Use UTF-8 > [b] Use source files encoding > > Regards, > > > Hervé > > > [0] http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVEN/Reporting+Encoding+Configuration > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]