[xwiki-devs] [VOTE] Make UTF-8 mandatory for a valid installation

Hi devs, We've moved more and more toward an UTF-8-only application, and XWiki has only been tested with this configuration for several years. I propose that we require UTF-8 for a valid, supported installation. This means: - JVM encoding (-Dfile.encoding=UTF8) - Container default URL encoding (Tomcat has ISO-8859-1 by default) - Database encoding (MySql is still configured with latin1 on some distros) There's one big site to update on our side: xwiki.org. Here's my +1. This is a move toward a future web, since more and more standards require (or at least assume as a default) UTF-8. After thinking a bit more, it would make sense to require a valid Unicode encoding, including UTF-16, which is preferable in countries that don't use a latin alphabet. However, XWiki doesn't currently work under 16-bit encodings at all. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu