On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 12:10 PM, Charles Morehead wrote:
Howdy,
First of all, my apologies if this functionality is already provided by velocity. I did search through the docs and mailing list and didn't find what I was looking for... so, that caveat aside:
I've been working with velocity bit, and one area that seems to be a little lacking is the ability for templates to specify their own encoding.
Indeed. It's a chicken and egg, isn't it? If the template is in UTF8, how do we read the template to find that out w/o knowing the character representation of the bytestream?
[SNIP some well-thought-out discussion]
Let me ask a question. What problem are you trying to solve? Is it that you need to *remember* what encoding a template is in? I've thought about that one on and off, and never came to a good conclusion other than writing a loader wrapper that would take a template name like
foo.vm.utf8
and do the right thing.
I've also thought about a scheme like you suggested, where we have an informal documentation-style approach, like
## @encoding <encoding>
and then another wrapper loader that figures it out and calls the resource loader with the correct info.
geir
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