java encoding charset suggestion

[Martin Buchholz]

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"