[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] Updated: (JBRULES-2853) ResourceFactory.newClassPathResource(drlPath) behaves differently on different platforms (linux, windows): it parses the file with different encodings

[Geoffrey De Smet (JIRA)]

     [ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBRULES-2853?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Geoffrey De Smet updated JBRULES-2853:
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    Fix Version/s: 5.3.0.Final
                       (was: 5.3.0.CR1)


> ResourceFactory.newClassPathResource(drlPath) behaves differently on different platforms (linux, windows): it parses the file with different encodings
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>                 Key: JBRULES-2853
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBRULES-2853
>             Project: Drools
>          Issue Type: Bug
>      Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) 
>            Reporter: Geoffrey De Smet
>            Assignee: Edson Tirelli
>            Priority: Critical
>             Fix For: 5.3.0.Final
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> This really sucks for non English people :) English people write in pure ASCII, so they don't suffer from this problem.
> French, Dutch etc mix in Latin-1 chars. Russian, Chinese use something else.
> The root problem: There are 2 ways to create an InputStream:
> - with encoding = GOOD, use encoding "UTF-8" and there are no problems.
> - without encoding: use the default platform encoding = BAD
> -- Linux: UTF-8, Windows in Belgium: Latin-1, Windows in China: Chinese-1, Windows in Sweden: Latin-2, ...
> -- Java's InputStream should have just defaulted it on UTF-8
> Proposition 1: Overloaded method which has an extra String encoding:
> - ResourceFactory.newClassPathResource(drlPath, encoding)
> - similar tactic as InputStream
> Proposition 2: Keep it simple. We decide what a DRL file is.
> Just like an XML file says to hell with the specified encoding, so can we.
> Note: All XML files default to UTF-8 encoding, and you can overwrite it in a header in the XML file itself (= self-describing): no need to mess around in the java code.
> Same principle: All DRL files are default UTF-8 encoding. Optionally we can define an encoding header later.
> I strongly prefer proposition 2. The world has got enough encoding problems.

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