On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Jimmy,Jing Lv <firep...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > Charles, I believe UTF-8 is the default encoding for RI, and it sounds > reasonable. > BTW, it may encounter some compatibility problem, maybe we need to run > more tests to verify? > > 2009/7/14 Charles Lee <littlee1...@gmail.com> > > > Hi guys: > > > > I am doing some test cases on the ant junit test case and meeting some > > encoding problems. I find they are maybe caused by the different default > > encoding from RI and harmony. My local is en_US.UTF-8, RI default is > UTF-8 > > but harmony is 8859-1. And then I have encountered > > HARMONY-3736<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-3736>, > > and the two diffs attached on that issue. It seems we always get 8859-1. > > Because: (correct me if wrong :-) > > > > 1. we remove the set code in the vm. we will always get null if we call > vm > > method > > 2. we set the file.encode in the libglob.c, if we got null from vm, we > set > Sorry, it should be luniglob.c > > > 8859-1. > > 3. we can not set file.encode on the run time. > > > > ant use UTF-8 to encode filename which contains the non-ascii character. > > So why we use iso8859-1 as our unchangeable default? > > From the wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO8859-1, it says "In > > computing > > applications, encodings that provide full UCS support (such as > > UTF-8<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8>and > > UTF-16 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16>) are finding increasing > favor > > over encodings based on ISO 8859-1." Should we simply change iso8859-1 to > > utf-8? > > > > -- > > Yours sincerely, > > Charles Lee > > > > > > -- > > Best Regards! > > Jimmy, Jing Lv > China Software Development Lab, IBM > -- Yours sincerely, Charles Lee
