[Mono-bugs] [Bug 670839] Building a Java file fails when encoding is not ANSI

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=670839

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=670839#c2


--- Comment #2 from Jonathan Pryor <jpryor at novell.com> 2011-02-12 01:12:48 UTC ---
We absolutely need to require UTF-8, for four reasons:

 1. monodroid generates Java source, and uses System.IO.StreamWriter to do so.
    System.IO.StreamWriter defaults to UTF-8 encoding.
 2. Types may contain Unicode characters, and Java also supports Unicode for
identifiers:
       
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jvms/first_edition/html/Concepts.doc.html#25339
    It's possible that part of an identifier within a given type may not be
representable
    within the default ANSI encoding.
 3. Using the default ANSI encoding breaks source control if the source is
built
    in multiple different locales concurrently, e.g. user A working in China
    and user B working in Russia; the default encoding has ~no overlap.
 4. On OSX and Linux, UTF-8 IS the default encoding.

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