On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 09:33 +0100, Ortwin Glück wrote: > > Julius Davies wrote: > > Roland, > > > > Sorry to muddy the waters. It would be really nice if we could assume > > UTF-8 > > for everything. > > Would be nice. The question is how well does it integrate with our IDEs. > There is no point using UTF-8 for .java files if it breaks every second day. > Java files can not specify their encoding inline (contrary to XML for > instance), so the encoding in use must be stored in some other meta-data > place. The Eclipse .project file provides such a place, but are > currently not in SVN for all projects. But I know that Roland prefers > Emacs (of which I know nothing). Then there is diff/patch whose > behvaiour probably depends on environment variables. If we don't want to > make development a hell, then please let's use the least common > denominator. > > Ortwin >
I agree with Odi, IDEs tend to be the largest troublemakers when it comes to using non US-ASCII charsets in java source files. We should assume UTF-8 encoding per default but nonetheless make an effort to escape all 'funny' characters just in case. Oleg > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
