[xwiki-dev] Re: Trying to understand I8N...

[Vincent Massol]

On Apr 7, 2007, at 8:00 PM, Zeljko Trogrlic wrote:

> Vincent Massol wrote:
>> Exactly which is why this is best left to the user to decide which  
>> encoding they need to use... I don't think we should force our  
>> encoding. However I'm proposing that we do: System.setProperty 
>> ("file.encoding", getParam("xwiki.encoding")) in XWiki  
>> initialization to set the platform encoding to be the encoding  
>> specified in xwiki.cfg.
>
> I think it should be vice-versa. Stick to platform or use UTF-8  
> don't add new encoding parameter.

xwiki.encoding already exists. The point here is to make platform =  
xwiki encoding = database driver encoding = web encoding = all  
encoding used everywhere, all this without the user having to change  
7 places...

-Vincent