[RESULT] [POLL] Default Value for Reports Output Encoding

2008-08-12 Thread Hervé BOUTEMY
After one week, the result is: a) UTF-8: 4 votes on user list + 2 previously on dev list b) same as source: 2 votes on user list 1 vote for platform encoding Default encoding for reports will be UTF-8. Thanks for your participation. Regards, Hervé Le mardi 05 août 2008, Hervé BOUTEMY a écrit

Re: [POLL] Default Value for Reports Output Encoding

2008-08-04 Thread Stephen Connolly
This is my objection to basing it on the source encoding. My preference is to pick output encoding as UTF-8 with a simple means to change it. Source encoding is a different matter. Some source files should never be UTF-8 encoded and yet the output should not be encoded in the same encoding... I

RE: [POLL] Default Value for Reports Output Encoding

2008-08-04 Thread Jörg Schaible
a) Hervé BOUTEMY wrote: > Hi, > > While working on "Report Encoding Configuration" proposal [0], 2 > options were discussed lately for default value [1]: > > a) use fixed UTF-8 encoding > > b) use same encoding as source files > > > Both options seem viable: choosing between them will be a qu

Re: [POLL] Default Value for Reports Output Encoding

2008-08-03 Thread Vincent Siveton
Hi Hervé, IMHO, this survey should be also on user@ Cheers, Vincent 2008/8/3 Hervé BOUTEMY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > While working on "Report Encoding Configuration" proposal [0], 2 options were > discussed lately for default value [1]: > > a) use fixed UTF-8 encoding > > b) use same encod

Re: [POLL] Default Value for Reports Output Encoding

2008-08-03 Thread Brett Porter
If there is a good way to make it work, the source files sounds "best" as it is reproducible and gives a default that should work in most instances. However, I think there are some reports that would have multiple source files, and they could be of mixed encodings, right? If that would be a

Re: [POLL] Default Value for Reports Output Encoding

2008-08-03 Thread Hervé BOUTEMY
Le dimanche 03 août 2008, Jason van Zyl a écrit : > What about the default system encoding? At the moment, most plugins have a fixed value (ISO-8859-1 for site and jxr plugins, UTF-8 for corbertura plugin) Changing for default system encoding would be a build reproducibility regression: not a goo

Re: [POLL] Default Value for Reports Output Encoding

2008-08-03 Thread Benjamin Bentmann
Jason van Zyl wrote: What about the default system encoding? It would be part of the show for approach b). The effective encoding would be determined by this chain: report encoding -> source encoding -> system encoding i.e. if report output encoding is not specified, fallback to source f

Re: [POLL] Default Value for Reports Output Encoding

2008-08-03 Thread Jason van Zyl
What about the default system encoding? On 3-Aug-08, at 1:20 PM, Hervé BOUTEMY wrote: Hi, While working on "Report Encoding Configuration" proposal [0], 2 options were discussed lately for default value [1]: a) use fixed UTF-8 encoding b) use same encoding as source files Both options s

[POLL] Default Value for Reports Output Encoding

2008-08-03 Thread Hervé BOUTEMY
Hi, While working on "Report Encoding Configuration" proposal [0], 2 options were discussed lately for default value [1]: a) use fixed UTF-8 encoding b) use same encoding as source files Both options seem viable: choosing between them will be a question of taste. Hence this poll: what is your