Why not just have a configuration in the xml file for setting a global charset? This way we avoid hard coded settings but also avoid the issue of shared vm issues.
John Sent from my phone, pardon the typos and brevity. On Oct 30, 2012 10:29 PM, "David Medinets" <[email protected]> wrote: > Re-reading and re-thinking I can see your point about how, by > specifying UTF-8, Accumulo is now flouting the file.encoding > parameter. I'd like to implement a static method inside > core/src/main/java/org/apache/accumulo/core/util/Encoding.java. Then > do something like getBytes(Encoding.getCharset()) instead of > hard-coding UTF-8. > > Class Encoding { > private static final Charset charset = null; > public Charset getCharset() { > if (charset == null) { > charset = Charset.forName(System.getProperty("file.encoding", > "UTF-8")); > } > return charset; > } > ... > } >
