Re: "Platform default encoding"
On 02/28/2011 06:17 PM, Tim McDaniel wrote:
In article<87576bda-dafa-43de-bc1c-7c71ad55c287@n16g2000prc.googlegroups.com>,
Lew<lew@lewscanon.com> wrote:
No way Oracle can know that for you.
I downloaded Java via a sun.com URL; they ought to know what they
support.
As for legal encodings, those are universal:
http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc2278.txt
I don't see any there. They're actually listed at another URL you mentioned,
From that URL:
"Examples of coded character sets are ISO 10646 [ISO-10646], US-ASCII
[US-ASCII], and the ISO-8859 series [ISO-8859]."
and
"A Character Encoding Scheme (CES) is a mapping from a Coded Character Set or
several coded character sets to a set of octets. A given CES is typically
associated with a single CCS; for example, UTF-8 applies only to ISO 10646."
From there you can use the terms they provide for further googling.
GIYF.
....
None of which documents what Oracle's Java considers the DEFAULT
encoding.
And your answer is:
Your platform documentation will tell you what encoding it uses.
...
So the answer is: Read the documentation
I would like to read the documentation on the default encoding for
javac, but I don't know where it is. For supported encodings, I can
It's whatever the default encoding is for your platform. No way Oracle can
know that. Read the documentation for your platform, as recommended.
Regardless, all your source code should be in UTF-8 encoding anyway.
GIYF!
I did Google. I didn't see it, though I did stop after 30 or so hits,
as few seemed pertinent.
Really? I got lots of useful hits from
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Java+character+encoding+what+is+the+default
which quickly yielded
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/encoding.html#DEFAULTENCODING
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/361975/setting-the-default-java-character-encoding
http://vietunicode.sourceforge.net/howto/java/encoding.html
http://www.rgagnon.com/javadetails/java-0505.html
http://www.rgagnon.com/javadetails/encoding.html
and
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iwedhelp/v6r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.db2e.doc/dbeapc1606.html
all on the first page of hits. And I haven't even tried Wikipedia yet!
--
Lew
Honi soit qui mal y pense.