Re: [xwiki-dev] [Opinions needed] Encoding of xwiki source files

Depending on a particular encoding is bad because: - The IDE has to be configured to use the encoding - Building from command line needs extra parameters - Opening a file using a standalone viewer, and not an IDE, will display the file using the system encoding, and we can't tell the user to change this - There are some people still using a shell, and something like midnight commander to open files, and the support for non-ascii chars is not so good in text shells. So the best solution would be not to have any special chars in the source files, so that any encoding works fine. However, there are some modules, like tests and translation files, where special characters are needed. And the only way to correctly display these chars in any environment is to use \u sequences. Still, we should make a full switch to utf8, including the source, so we should switch all the files to utf8.