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

[Sébastien Gaïde]

Vincent Massol a écrit :
> +1 option 2 too (I think option 1 is never going to work because it's 
> too constraining for developers).

why ?

XWiki is the only project that is not encoded in utf8 in my workspace.
All the other projects are 100% utf8, with no problem.

S.

> 
> -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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