Re: [ALL] parent uses commons.encoding=iso-8859-1; change to UTF-8?

2023-10-27 Thread Elliotte Rusty Harold
https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022#overview shows professional use of OS by developers has Windows below 50%, more than Mac or Linux but less than the combination of the two. The JetBrains 2021 survey also shows Mac + Linux > Windows: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2021/ (2022

Re: [ALL] parent uses commons.encoding=iso-8859-1; change to UTF-8?

2023-10-27 Thread Gary Gregory
On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 8:43 AM Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > > +1 > > Using anything other than UTF-8 is a bug. > > There are more Java developers on Linux and Mac these days than > Windows, nor will development tools on Windows have any problem with > this. There is obviously no way to know

Re: [ALL] parent uses commons.encoding=iso-8859-1; change to UTF-8?

2023-10-27 Thread Elliotte Rusty Harold
+1 Using anything other than UTF-8 is a bug. There are more Java developers on Linux and Mac these days than Windows, nor will development tools on Windows have any problem with this. On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 10:16 AM sebb wrote: > > As the subject says - it seems wrong to be using iso-8859-1

Re: [ALL] parent uses commons.encoding=iso-8859-1; change to UTF-8?

2023-10-27 Thread Gary Gregory
That will likely mess up some people on Windows or who have that encoding as their default OS encoding (Windows in US at least). The good news is that modern Java 18 IIRC switched to UTF-8. Gary On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 6:17 AM sebb wrote: > > As the subject says - it seems wrong to be using