[wtp-dev] Does everyone just love ISO-8859-1?

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

See bug 132898 for details, but its
become apparent we don't have a good consistent way of specifying with
charset/encoding in our java code file (and property files, etc). These
language are very old-fashion and did not learn from the lessons in structured
text ... encoding must be specified in the content. But, since its not,
we'll have to pick a common one. 

Anyway, we are in no "big trouble",
.. but some odd cases of "corrupted characters" due to encoding
changing from machine to machine. So ... we should specificy encoding to
notifier the compiler how to interpret the files. Main choices are UTF-8
and ISO-8859-1. I'd recommend the latter, since is more "traditional".
Besides tradition, our CVS server uses it, and if we wanted to use UTF-8
we'd either have to get them to change, or, just check in files as 'binary'
and loose some functionality. 

But we should all in WTP should do consistently

The best way to do this is to set the
project settings to use the text encoding to ISO-8859-1, unless someone
has a great objection. 
That way, as team members or community
check out the encodings, instead of just getting their own preference.


I've already fixed the compiler to always
use ISO-8859-1, and most of you only haven to change the default setting
under project properties. 
I don't recommend relying not rely on
the workbench setting ... that's kind of outdated for team shared projects.


Sound ok? 

Action for you? I've already sent notes/bugs
to those that might have more to do .. but if you didn't get one of those,
please just change your project setting, 
to be ISO-8859-1. If you have questions,
or need help, I'm sure several of us would be perfectly happy to help.