[RESULT] [POLL] Default Value for Reports Output Encoding

[Hervé BOUTEMY <he...@free.fr>]

After one week, the result is:

a) UTF-8: 4 votes on user list + 2 previously on dev list
b) same as source: 2 votes on user list
1 vote for platform encoding

Default encoding for reports will be UTF-8.

Thanks for your participation.

Regards,

Hervé

Le mardi 05 août 2008, Hervé BOUTEMY a écrit :
> Dear community,
>
> The Maven team is currently discussing a proposal about the future handling
> of reporting output file encoding by the various plugins, please see our
> wiki article [0] for all details.
>
> 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 fixed UTF-8 encoding
>
> b) use same encoding as source files
>
>
> Approach a) is simple and sould work for everybody, since any character can
> be output in UTF-8.
> Approach b) is more subtle and mimics the behaviour of javadoc tool. Since
> reports contain more data than source content, there are cases where this
> default value won't be appropriate (for example, if project's description
> in pom.xml contains characters that can't be output with source files
> encoding).
>
>
> So, please let us know:
>
> [a] Use UTF-8
> [b] Use source files encoding
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Hervé
>
>
> [0] http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVEN/Reporting+Encoding+Configuration
>
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