java encoding charset suggestion

[Louis Wasserman]

This would probably be likely to break lots of existing users depending on
the default charset, depressingly enough.


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

> Hi Martin Buchholz,
>
> I believe (but I could be wrong) that only java applications exhibit this
> behavior, programs made with GTK or QT are not affected,
> they probably look at the level of the X11 case are not in variable
> LANG or assume
> a default locale.
>
>
> >  $ (unset LC_ALL LC_COLLATE LANG LANGUAGE GDM_LANG; locale)
> > LANG=
> > LANGUAGE=
> > LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
> > LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
> > LC_TIME="POSIX"
> > LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
> > LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
> > LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
> > LC_PAPER="POSIX"
> > LC_NAME="POSIX"
> > LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
> > LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
> > LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
> > LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
> > LC_ALL=
> >
>
> 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 ?
>
> Thanks for reply !
>
> 2013/3/18 Martin Buchholz <martinrb at google.com>
>
> > It *would* be nice if the world agreed on using UTF-8 as a universal
> > encoding for all text.  However:
> >
> > Standard says
> > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap08.html
> >
> > """If the LANG environment variable is not set or is set to the empty
> > string, the implementation-defined default locale shall be used."""
> >
> > But I think the operating system should set the default, not the
> > application.  On my Ubuntu system I see the traditional ASCII English
> > default:
> >
> >  $ (unset LC_ALL LC_COLLATE LANG LANGUAGE GDM_LANG; locale)
> > LANG=
> > LANGUAGE=
> > LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
> > LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
> > LC_TIME="POSIX"
> > LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
> > LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
> > LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
> > LC_PAPER="POSIX"
> > LC_NAME="POSIX"
> > LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
> > LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
> > LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
> > LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
> > LC_ALL=
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Helio Frota <heliofrota at gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> I would suggest taking en_US.UTF-8 as default when the LANG variable is
> >> not
> >> set to avoid problems with encoding.
> >>
> >
>
>
> --
> Helio Frota
> http://www.heliofrota.com/
>



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Louis Wasserman