Re: [POLL] Default Value for File Encoding

[Benjamin Bentmann <be...@udo.edu>]

Benjamin Bentmann wrote:

> A controversial aspect of this proposal is which file encoding should be
> assumed in case the user did not specify this in the POM. This poll should
> help us to come to a well-founded decision.
>
> These are the two possible directions to go:
>
> a) Use the current platform encoding, aka the system property
>   "file.encoding".
>
> b) Use a static/fixed value that is defined by convention, i.e. is not
>   platform-dependent.

More than 24 hours after the last response on this thread, I believe it's
fair to say the die is cast. The votes here on this thread on over on the
related wiki article sum up to almost 90% for approach a) which is a rather
clear outcome. I will update our proposal accordingly.

Unfortunately, the change for MJAVADOC-165 was already released, i.e. the
Javadoc Plugin 2.4 uses Latin-1 as default encoding if its configuration
does not specify otherwise. As a matter of consistency, this should be
reverted to use platform encoding, however this would imply another breaking
change. Given the apparent dilemma, I created MJAVADOC-185 where users can
vote for this change if it should happen.

I would like to thank everybody who participated in this poll and shared his
thoughts.


Benjamin Bentmann


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Re: [POLL] Default Value for File Encoding

[Benjamin Bentmann <be...@udo.edu>]

Benjamin Bentmann wrote:

> Unfortunately, the change for MJAVADOC-165 was already released, i.e. the
> Javadoc Plugin 2.4 uses Latin-1 as default encoding if its configuration
> does not specify otherwise. As a matter of consistency, this should be
> reverted to use platform encoding, however this would imply another
> breaking change. Given the apparent dilemma, I created MJAVADOC-185 where
> users can vote for this change if it should happen.

A similar case is the Maven JXR Plugin which uses Latin-1 as its default
encoding (since version 2.0). Votes to bring this in line with the outcome 
of this poll can be placed at
  http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JXR-62


Benjamin


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