svn commit: r661035 - /incubator/uima/uimaj/trunk/uima-docbooks/src/docbook/tools/tools.cvd.xml

[tw...@apache.org]

Author: twgoetz
Date: Wed May 28 11:10:35 2008
New Revision: 661035

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=661035&view=rev
Log:
Jira UIMA-420: remove manual handling of code pages in CVD.  Update
documentation.

http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-420

Modified:
    incubator/uima/uimaj/trunk/uima-docbooks/src/docbook/tools/tools.cvd.xml

Modified: incubator/uima/uimaj/trunk/uima-docbooks/src/docbook/tools/tools.cvd.xml
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/uima/uimaj/trunk/uima-docbooks/src/docbook/tools/tools.cvd.xml?rev=661035&r1=661034&r2=661035&view=diff
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--- incubator/uima/uimaj/trunk/uima-docbooks/src/docbook/tools/tools.cvd.xml (original)
+++ incubator/uima/uimaj/trunk/uima-docbooks/src/docbook/tools/tools.cvd.xml Wed May 28 11:10:35 2008
@@ -291,8 +291,8 @@
        there is probably nothing you need to do. Just load the text and
        look at the display. If you see no funny characters or square
        boxes, chances are your selected code page is compatible with
-       your text file.
-
+       your text file.
+       
        Note that the code page setting is also in effect when you save
        files. You can observe the effects with a hex editor or by just
        looking at the file size. For example, if you save the default
@@ -303,21 +303,14 @@
        and save the file again, the file size will be 58 bytes: two
        bytes for each character, plus two bytes for the byte-order mark.
        Now switch the code page back to the default Windows code page
-       and reload the UTF-16 file to see the difference in the editor.
-
-       By default, the code page options include all code pages that any
-       Java implementation must support: US-ASCII, ISO-8859-1, UTF-8,
-       UTF-16BE (big-endian), UTF-16LE (little endian) and UTF-16 (with
-       magic marker). Also included is the system code page, if it is
-       not among the built-in ones. Prior to Java 1.4, there is no
-       programmatic way to determine what the complete list of supported
-       code pages is. Therefore, you can add your own code page in the
-       corresponding submenu. All this amounts to is adding a string.
-       The new code page is automatically selected as the current code
-       page. The way to find out if the code page you entered is
-       supported in your Java implementation is to try and load a text
-       file. If you see an error ``Unsupported text encoding'', the code
-       page is not supported.
+       and reload the UTF-16 file to see the difference in the editor.
+       
+       CVD will display all code pages that are available in the JVM
+       you're running it on.  The first code page in the list is the
+       default code page of your system.  This is also CVD's default if
+       you don't make a specific choice.
+       
+       Your code page selection will be remembered in CVD's ini file.
       </para>
      </formalpara>
     </listitem>