[xwiki-dev] [Opinions needed] Encoding of xwiki source files

[François Le Droff]

+1 for option 1 (use of UTF8)

On 3/10/07, Marta Girdea <marta.girdea at gmail.com> wrote:
> +1 for option 2
>
> On 3/8/07, Gilles Serasset <Gilles.Serasset at imag.fr> wrote:
> > 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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