On Mar 14, 2009, at 2:20 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: > Niels Mayer wrote: >> >> PS: Why not just have xwiki.cfg's default be: >> 'xwiki.encoding=UTF-8' ; >> likewise have web.xml's default for >> com.xpn.xwiki.web.SetCharacterEncodingFilter's 'encoding' be >> UTF-8. These >> encoding errors that oft go unnoticed are probably resulting in a >> number of >> configuration errors, and perhaps other bug-reports that aren't >> entirely >> valid, should they depend on encoding issues. > > Big +1 > > This is one of the oldest issues open > (http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-94). I guess that since we're > nearing 2.0, it would be a good thing to set this on trunk, before the > 1.9M1 release. > > WDYT?
We'd need to put huge disclaimers everywhere since this would cause problems with users (the majority?) who have MySQL or other dbs set in ISO8859-1, or their containers set a ISO8859-1 as the default, right? Is mysql in UTF8 by default? Same question for tomcat or other JEE containers. Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
