2008/4/5, Hervé BOUTEMY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > Since the discussion on the list about Maven and encoding 2 weeks ago, > Benjamin and I worked on a proposal to have: > 1. a central point of configuration of sources encoding, to be used by each > and every plugin, > 2. a default value set to ISO-8859-1 (instead of platform encoding) to have > build reproducibility by default
Out of curiosity, why would you go for 8859-1 and not UTF-8 or US-ASCII? I would think it would be safer to either support any extended character or no extended characters, and not something halfway there? Asgeir