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

[Gilles Serasset]

Hi,

On 8 avr. 07, at 22:56, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:

>
>
> 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.

Moreover, we may want to install different instances of xwiki in the  
same container... hence the common file.encoding is not an option  
here (as far as I understand it...)

Gilles,
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