> > >> Could we change the default for *all* types of text files including java > >> source files to UTF-8 ? >
+1 Also in [math] it would be interesting to use some symbols and some > greek characters in javadoc and have them both readable when editing the > file and converted automatically into html whene generating javadoc. For > now, we use the html 4.0 entities for that and it is barely readable. As > an example, compare the following source and generated javadoc. +1 Apparently, the generated Javadoc is encoded by default with yet another legacy charset: <!-- Generated by javadoc (build 1.6.0_13) on Sun Aug 02 15:34:31 EDT 2009 --> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> Useful flags to enable the use of UTF-8 math/greek sympbols in the [math] Javadoc are described here: http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/tools/windows/javadoc.html#charset Cyril Briquet
