[collections] Bug 17616 - Properties encoding

[Stephen Colebourne <sc...@btopenworld.com>]

http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17616

It appears that in the quest to write a better Properties class, the ASCII
nature of existing properties files was overlooked.

The problem I see is whether we are prepared to accept a backwardsly
incompatable change here. The change is that 'ExtendedProperties will use
ASCII as the default encoding, not the JDK default encoding because that is
what Properties does'.

This looks like a sensible change to me, and I'm not overly worried about
the compatability here (most files will be ASCII). Any other views???

Stephen


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