java encoding charset suggestion (original) (raw)

Martin Buchholz martinrb at google.com
Mon Mar 18 19:04:08 UTC 2013

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Helio Frota <heliofrota at gmail.com> wrote:

Please try to use á é í ... But I think the operating system should set the default, not the application. On my Ubuntu system I see the traditional ASCII English default:

I agree, but the JVM could not be pro-active ?

How can java know that UTF-8 will work better than, for example, ISO-8859-1? It cannot, so it asks the operating system, which answers "Use ASCII". "Well, OK, at least it will work for Americans"

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