good idea. except for properties files. they MUST be in ISO 8859-1 character encoding! (see http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Properties.html) therefore: please take care of the resource bundle files when you change encoding. --Manfred
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 19:47, Bernd Bohmann <bernd.bohm...@atanion.com> wrote: > Hello, > > could we define a default file encoding for the MyFaces Project? > > I would suggest UTF-8. > > And add following property to the poms: > > <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding> > > See: > > http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVENUSER/POM+Element+for+Source+File+Encoding > > > Regards > > Bernd >