If the developer wrote the software correctly it would not make any
assumptions about the encoding and be explicit in choosing an
encoding when going in and out of String instances, etc. It is
generally a bad programming practice to use the default encoding on
any platform.
In this case, we're talking about javac assuming MacRoman for the
source file encoding. That's fine, but it would be nice to be able to
change that system-wide, rather than having to remember to specify a
command-line option each time.
Mac OS X had/has to support users coming over from Mac OS. Mac OS
used Mac Roman as its default encoding. That is why the default
encoding was selected to be Mac Roman on Mac OS X.
I don't really buy this argument. Java is Java, after all.
--
Rick
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