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Re: [VOTE] POM Element for Source File Encoding

by Jason van Zyl-2 :: Rate this Message:

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On 8-Apr-08, at 1:09 AM, Benjamin Bentmann wrote:
> Jason van Zyl wrote:
>> Would being able to detect the encoding help with making this less
>> complicated. Something JChardet?
>
> I'm not really sure what you meant to say. JChardet is a library  
> that performs a best *guess* on file encoding by peeking at a byte  
> stream. We don't want to base our builds on heuristics, don't we?
>

If it's right most of the time, and it saves the user from having to  
know or worry about it then yes I would use it.

>
> Benjamin
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Thanks,

Jason

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