On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 01:31 am, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
>
> Maybe <http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17634>.  I'm
> not sure, but this looks like a regression (Ant 1.5.1 would happily
> accept manifests in any encoding).

Yes, but the resulting manifests were likely invalid and could possibly cause 
something using UTF-8 to read the manifest to choke.

>
> I'm not sure whether it is possible, but maybe it would be better to
> give manifest an encoding attribute and make it default to the
> platform's default encoding (compatible with 1.5.1 and earlier).  It
> should always write UTF-8, though.
>

Yes, probably a good idea. I'll try to look at it in the next few days.

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