On 4/8/07, Zeljko Trogrlic <zeljko_t@post.htnet.hr> wrote:

Vincent Massol wrote:
>
> On Apr 7, 2007, at 8:00 PM, Zeljko Trogrlic wrote:
>
>> Vincent Massol wrote:
>>> Exactly which is why this is best left to the user to decide which
>>> encoding they need to use... I don't think we should force our
>>> encoding. However I'm proposing that we do:
>>> System.setProperty("file.encoding", getParam("xwiki.encoding")) in
>>> XWiki initialization to set the platform encoding to be the encoding
>>> specified in xwiki.cfg.
>>
>> I think it should be vice-versa. Stick to platform or use UTF-8 don't
>> add new encoding parameter.
>
> xwiki.encoding already exists. The point here is to make platform =
> xwiki encoding = database driver encoding = web encoding = all encoding
> used everywhere, all this without the user having to change 7 places...

Of course, bur Java already has file.encoding. Why another property?

Because we can't change the way the server starts, given the fact that there are dozens of containers and platforms.