Re: [groovy-user] File encoding problem - Russel Winder - org.codehaus.groovy.user

25 messages in org.codehaus.groovy.userRe: [groovy-user] File encoding problem

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Subject:	Re: [groovy-user] File encoding problem	Actions...
From:	Russel Winder (rus...@russel.org.uk)
Date:	Mar 23, 2007 1:06:38 pm
List:	org.codehaus.groovy.user

On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 15:01 -0500, Michael Baehr wrote:

Well, there is a file with a bunch of bytes. Groovy (a Java program) tries to interpret those bytes according to some chosen encoding.

The encoding of the original file is important though, ISO 8859-15 is totally different form UTF-8 which is totally different from UTF-16 LE.

You would expect that this has nothing to do with the operating system.

Yes and no. Java is critically OS specific in various ways despite the fact that it is supposed to be OS independent.

Question is how Groovy selects the encoding (and why the command line switches for manual selection don't work) ...

Very true.

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