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Sebb commented on IO-314:
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Deprecation is a good idea, assuming that there are suitable replacements
(which could be created if necessary).
However removal would break binary compatibility.
> Deprecate and then remove all methods that use the default encoding
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> Key: IO-314
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-314
> Project: Commons IO
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Streams/Writers
> Affects Versions: 2.1
> Reporter: Aaron Digulla
> Priority: Minor
>
> On Stackoverflow.com, I often see this kind of question: "When I read my text
> on a different computer, it's all garbled."
> The underlying issue is that people don't understand the concept of encoding
> and therefore, they use the default encoding which breaks their code when
> they least expect it. Worse, it often causes data corruption without throwing
> exceptions.
> Therefore my suggestion: Deprecate and then remove all methods that use the
> default encoding. Users should always specify an encoding when doing text
> I/O, to make sure that data cannot be corrupted even when they don't know
> what they're doing.
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