Le mercredi 09 avril 2008, Benjamin Bentmann a écrit : > > I see your point. Worth another vote? Or should this switch be postponed > > to 2.1, trading consistency in minor version upgrades for a longer time > > for these Latin1 defaults to be established? > > [...] > > So while I agree that a change in default either now or in the future is > > ugly, it is not taboo, and I believe woth the gain. > > Latin-1 being the default value was part of our proposal and not many > people complained about that nor changed their previous votes. So I believe > another vote won't deliver a different outcome. > > Besides, Brian's honorable efforts to ban regressions are a good argument > to keep the already started route with Latin-1. It might not be the best > default value, but it's only a one liner to change it. I have one argument in favor of ISO-8859-1 as default: it's the default encoding of properties files, as defined by JDK java.util.Properties class. When Maven will be JDK 1.5+, we'll be able to switch to XML properties files, and then no problem for UTF-8 as default...
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