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

[Sergiu Dumitriu]

On 4/8/07, Zeljko Trogrlic <zeljko_t at post.htnet.hr> wrote:
>
> 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?
>

Because we can't change the way the server starts, given the fact that there
are dozens of containers and platforms.


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