-encoding and -source in module-info.java

[Rémi Forax]

On 01/24/2012 11:07 PM, Jesse Glick wrote:
> On 01/24/2012 04:35 PM, Neal Gafter wrote:
>> I agree it would be nice to place these options together in a file 
>> for the compiler to consume.  I just don't think it should be a "Java 
>> programming language
>> source" file.
>
> Well in the current Jigsaw prototype there is only one source of 
> metadata, and that is module-info.java. Whether such a file 
> extension/name/style is appropriate for module metadata is a 
> long-running argument on the list which I did not want to get into.
>
>> as long as it is a source file in the language, it must be subject to 
>> those
>> options as well.  Which means that specifying them inside the file 
>> itself is pretty pointless.
>
> I do not think so. It is admittedly a bit tricky with respect to 
> encoding, but the XML spec has managed this.

No, it doesn't work. As an example try to specify utf-16 as encoding of 
an XML file.
I only works for US-ASCII, UTF8 and all encodings that contains the 128 
first value of the ASCII
and encode them as a byte.

Rémi