On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Chris Hostetter
<hossman_luc...@fucit.org> wrote:
>
> replying to dev...
>
> : in eclipse you need to set your project's character encoding to UTF-8.
>        ...
> : > Some language specific classes like GermanLightStemmer has invalid
> : > character
> : > compiler errors for code like:
> : >      switch(s[i]) {
> : >        case 'ä':
> : >        case 'Ã ':
> : >        case 'á':
> : > in Eclipse with JDK 1.6
>
> ...i seem to remember something similar coming up in the past, and I
> thought we decided we should use java unicode character escapes instead of
> literal UTF-8 characters in the source to minimize the number of headaches
> (and make it more self documenting *exactly* what character we were using.
>
>

-1. These files should be readable, for maintaining, debugging and
knowing whats going on.

its the 21st century, we can use unicode

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