On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Helio Frota <heliofr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Please try to use á é í ... > > But I think the operating system should set the default, not the >> application. On my Ubuntu system I see the traditional ASCII English >> default: >> > > I agree, but the JVM could not be pro-active ? How can java know that UTF-8 will work better than, for example, ISO-8859-1? It cannot, so it asks the operating system, which answers "Use ASCII". "Well, OK, at least it will work for Americans"
