Hi Martin, Is not interesting to favor one country or language. I read some documents including the link you shared ( opengroup ).
Only one thing i found is the python language that try to found defined values on others variables. http://docs.python.org/2/library/locale.html But after absorbing more information, I agree that would be chaos breaking compatibility. Thanks for reply ! I learned more things today. 2013/3/18 Martin Buchholz <marti...@google.com> > > > > 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" > -- Helio Frota http://www.heliofrota.com/
