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Hello,
I think I've spotted the reason why the javadoc does not come out right
with UTF-8 characters.
Our pom.xml defines the following properties
<project.build.sourceEncoding>
UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
which should produce the correct result if the default configuration of the
javadoc plugin is used [1].
However, the parent pom.xml does not use the javadoc plugin default config.
Instead, it uses two properties, namely commons.encoding and
commons.docEncoding
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
...
<configuration>
...
<encoding>${commons.encoding}</encoding>
<docEncoding>${commons.docEncoding}</docEncoding>
...
</configuration>
</plugin>
which are defined as follows
<commons.encoding>iso-8859-1</commons.encoding>
<commons.docEncoding>${commons.encoding}</commons.docEncoding>
So, we should first override commons.encoding in our own pom.xml
<commons.encoding>UTF-8</commons.encoding>
We should also get rid of the following lines in our pom.xml
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
since the parent pom.xml defines these two properties as
<project.build.sourceEncoding>${commons.encoding}</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<project.reporting.outputEncoding>${commons.encoding}</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
I've performed these changes locally, and it seems to be working OK.
However, I'm a bit shy. I'm no maven guru, and I'd rather someone had a
look into this before I commit the changes.
Best regards,
Sébastien
[1]
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-javadoc-plugin/faq.html#What_are_the_values_of_encoding_docencoding_and_charset_parameters
