DO NOT REPLY [Bug 36699] New: - PropertiesConfiguration.load should default to encoding "8859_1"

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http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36699

           Summary: PropertiesConfiguration.load should default to encoding
                    "8859_1"
           Product: Commons
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Configuration
        AssignedTo: commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: wglass@forio.com


Same issue as:

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

Copied from 17616

The default load method for commons.collections.ExtendedProperties currently 
loads properties using the default JVM encoding.  The default load() method 
should use "8859_1" encoding.

Rationale:
1) consistency: java.util.Properties.load() method always uses "8859_1"
2) properties resources are always 8859_1, by convention.
2) On edbcic machines, particularly IBM mainframes, the default encoding is 
Cp1047 (ebcdic), but properties files are always ASCII (ISO8859-1)
3) This bug causes many Apache tools, such as Velocity, which uses 
commons.collections, to fail on non-ascii machines, since they distribute 
properties resources which are (correctly) in 8859-1.

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