Trying to understand I8N...

[Zeljko Trogrlic]

Vincent Massol wrote:
> 
> 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...

Of course, bur Java already has file.encoding. Why another property?