Author: bentmann
Date: Thu Aug 28 10:58:51 2008
New Revision: 689916
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=689916&view=rev
Log:
[MNGSITE-46] Specify file encoding to be employed for sources
Modified:
maven/site/trunk/src/site/apt/developers/committer-environment.apt
Modified: maven/site/trunk/src/site/apt/developers/committer-environment.apt
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/maven/site/trunk/src/site/apt/developers/committer-environment.apt?rev=689916&r1=689915&r2=689916&view=diff
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--- maven/site/trunk/src/site/apt/developers/committer-environment.apt
(original)
+++ maven/site/trunk/src/site/apt/developers/committer-environment.apt Thu Aug
28 10:58:51 2008
@@ -30,6 +30,14 @@
This document is intended to set up the Maven committer environment.
+{Source File Encoding}
+
+ When editing source files, make sure you use the right file encoding. For the
Maven project, UTF-8 has been chosen
+ as the default file encoding. UTF-8 is an encoding scheme for the Unicode
character set and as such allows to encode
+ all characters that Java can handle. The source files should not contain the
byte order mark (BOM). There can be
+ exceptions to this general rule, e.g. properties files are usually encoded
using ISO-8859-1 as per the JRE API, so
+ please keep this in mind, too.
+
Subversion Configuration
Before committing files in subversion repository, you need to read the
