[Opinions needed] Encoding of xwiki source files

Hi all, While working on encodings problems, I saw that some of the source file do use non ascii chars (which is normal, especially in unit tests). But, there is currently no decision on the encoding of the source file, hence, compilers cannot correctly read the files that do use non ascii chars. This leads to tests working on single instances but not on others, only due to compilation settings. There are 2 solutions: 1. force everybody to use UTF-8 encoding for their source files (it's quite easy to st up most IDE once and for all for this...) and specify the encoding in javac parameters in ant and maven. 2. force everybody to use unicode escapes (\uXXXX) to specify a non ascii char in the sources (easily detectable on build, but harder for developpers who have to use native2ascii) Current files with non ascii chars: /Users/serasset/dev/xwiki/trunks-users/xwiki/core/src/main/java/com/ xpn/xwiki/plugin/autotag/FrenchStemmer.java /Users/serasset/dev/xwiki/trunks-users/xwiki/core/src/main/java/com/ xpn/xwiki/plugin/autotag/AutoTagPlugin.java (Both are in ISO-8859-1) /Users/serasset/dev/xwiki/trunks-users/xwiki/core/src/test/java/com/ xpn/xwiki/content/LinkTest.java (this one seems to be encoded in VISCII (vietnamese encoding) As in LinkTest.java, the test uses vietnamese characters, it's likely that ISO-8859-1 encoding is not a viable option for the xwiki source encoding. In the mean time, LinkTest.java should use \uXXXX uniocde escapes in order to run correctly in all installs. Can you please tell me which solution you prefer ? Regards, -- Gilles Sérasset GETALP-LIG BP 53 - F-38041 Grenoble Cedex 9 Phone: +33 4 76 51 43 80 Fax: +33 4 76 44 66 75