[Opinions needed] Encoding of xwiki source files

[Gilles Serasset]

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,

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Gilles Sérasset
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