Java seems [1] to take the system encoding which can vary between windows and other machines.
My main editors are Eclipse (FB) and vim, Eclipse is set to use UTF-8 while vim is using latin1 by default. But in any case, these are easily configurable so I don’t see the harm in requiring users to encode to UTF-8. [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1006276/what-is-the-default-encoding-of-the-jvm ________________________________ From: Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com.INVALID> Sent: Monday, December 4, 2017 7:36:50 AM To: dev@royale.apache.org Subject: Re: Java Default Encoding and Royale Compiler On 12/3/17, 3:08 AM, "Yishay Weiss" <yishayj...@hotmail.com> wrote: >JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS=-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 > >Is there any reason not to hard code the file encoding in the compiler? > I don't know for sure, but the first question that comes to mind is why Java itself hasn't bothered to default to a particular file encoding. Also, especially for folks using Windows, what kinds of editors do you use and what file encoding do those editors use? My 2 cents, -Alex
