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

[Vincent Massol]

+1 option 2 too (I think option 1 is never going to work because it's  
too constraining for developers).

-Vincent

On Mar 8, 2007, at 4:01 PM, Gilles Serasset 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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