I am looking at "all" the encoding-related issues in assembly now btw.

Kristian


2014-10-10 12:16 GMT+02:00 Kristian Rosenvold <kristian.rosenv...@gmail.com>:
> No. It is platform encoding dependent. Which is why we have a bunch of
> issues in maven-assembly-plugin about this behaviour.
>
> The JAR archiver does this already, since its part of the jar spec.
>
> Kristian
>
>
> 2014-10-10 11:58 GMT+02:00 Karl Heinz Marbaise <khmarba...@gmx.de>:
>> Hi Kristina,
>>
>>
>> just a question on this topic...does currently jar from plexus-archiver
>> already behave like this and uses UTF-8 encoding always ? Or is this
>> platform dependent?
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/10/14 8:26 AM, Kristian Rosenvold wrote:
>>>
>>> Currently plexus-archiver uses platform encoding for zip file names if
>>> none is specified. This is "compliant" with traditional Zip history.
>>>
>>> But zip understood this is a problem and introduced a "LEF" flag,
>>> which basically means all entries must be UTF-8.
>>>
>>> I would like to switch defaults in plexus zip archiver; make it
>>> *disregard* platform encoding and always output utf8 + LEF, unless a
>>> different encoding has been explicitly specified.
>>>
>>> In consequence this would make zip behave like "jar" does; always
>>> default to the well-defined UTF-8 + LEF standard.
>>>
>>> This will break builds for people that actually *want* archives in
>>> file.encoding; they will need to explicitly specify encoding to get
>>> that encoding. To my understanding this is not really an issue, LEF
>>> support is ancient history.
>>>
>>> Opinions ?
>>>
>>> Kristian
>>>
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>>
>> Kind regards
>> Karl Heinz Marbaise
>>
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