Hi Nanthan, If the file encoding derive from the OS, it should be the some bugs in it because on my LINUX machine the locale is en_US.UTF-8. Our default codec is still ISO8859-1. Do you know where can we found such codes?
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Nathan Beyer <nbe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Are we talking about windows or linux?the default file encoding should > derive from the OS. I believe that's defined by the specs. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Jul 14, 2009, at 5:51 AM, Charles Lee <littlee1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 >> > -- Yours sincerely, Charles Lee
