[platform-releng-dev] Character encoding standard for Eclipse source?

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Team, 

I could not, in 30 seconds of searching,
find it documented anywhere, but I get the impression that the "standard"
for encoding our Eclipse platform source code is ISO-8859-1, right? (Is
it "required"? Or just recommended? Or just tradition?) 
 
For PDE builds we tell the compiler
this information by using build.properties. Such as, 
compilerArg=-inlineJSR -enableJavadoc
-encoding ISO-8859-1

So, 

A. for our CBI-based (maven) builds,
this is done, I'm learning, by specifying this property in the parent pom
(and, then projects that want something else have to override). 
 See Bug 399441
- [CBI] Warnings about UTF-8

 <properties>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>ISO-8859-1</project.build.sourceEncoding>
 </properties>


B. But, while investigating that, I noticed some projects
do not seem to specify any encoding for their IDE project, and a few specify
UTF-8 (but don't seem to specify it in their build.properties). So, I opened
a new bug for projects to fix up their project settings. See 
Bug 399451
- Some projects have incorrect encoding set 
Its not very specific on who needs to do what, but hope
all project leads can double check their project settings to make sure
they are correct for Kepler. 

Thanks,