+1 for UTF-8 by default IMHO, nobody knows: everybody just want that "it works" (TM)
I found the spec: appendix D2 "APPENDIX D - Language Encoding (EFS)" of http://www.pkware.com/documents/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT this does not give the date when this bit was reserved, but seems quite old: I don't have any doubt it is supported by every tool nowadays thank you for this update: this will fix a lot of things, and now it's not obscure any more :) Regards, Hervé Le vendredi 10 octobre 2014 08:26:31 Kristian Rosenvold a écrit : > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
