[mojo-dev] [jira] (MLICENSE-91) .property files mangled after adding license header

Sun, 29 Dec 2013 06:55:25 -0800

It depends on how you store and load the properties from the file, Tony.
As quite a lot of folks use the load method from the Properties class (really bad practise, but frequently used),
and that load method assumes ISO-8859-1 encoding (... interesting design choice by Sun once upon a time...), I think
we should be very clear in our documentation that .property files should be read using a UTF-8 compliant method.

There are other methods, of course, but to my knowledge quite some property configuration loaders simply use the
method linked to below. (Yielding the broken behaviour illustrated here).

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Properties.html#load%28java.io.InputStream%29
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