Re: wocomponent wizard preview

From: Q (qdola..mail.com)
Date: Mon Feb 23 2009 - 06:58:44 EST

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    On 23/02/2009, at 9:23 PM, Q wrote:

    >
    > On 23/02/2009, at 5:58 PM, Andrew Lindesay wrote:
    >
    >> Hello Lachlan and Quinton;
    >>
    >>> Optional WOO file creation was previously a feature of the wizard,
    >>> but was removed for good reasons (that I don't recall right now).
    >>
    >> I was quite keen on not having the woo with my components.
    >
    > What I do remember of the problem is that this happened at a time
    > when quite a number of people were migrating from xcode and having
    > no end of character encoding related issues.
    > As a result the Apple WO team proposed that character encoding
    > validation be added to WOLips to ensure that eclipse's idea of the
    > character encoding matched what WO was expecting.
    >
    > This was done by me, and it sort of worked, except that WO doesn't
    > have a default encoding type, it uses the JDK default which is
    > different depending on the platform you use, so it was not possible
    > to validate the encoding type when it was unspecified because this
    > could change depending on the JDK you used to run the app.
    >
    > More recently the move in the wolips & wonder communities has been
    > to standardise on using UTF-8 as the default component encoding
    > type, which is only possible to do correctly, due to WO's lack of
    > defaulting to UTF-8, if your component includes a .woo file stating
    > that you are explicitly using UTF-8.
    >
    > So it's just better to let eclipse take care of things for you and
    > live with the fact that .woo files mean you don't need to worry
    > about the character encoding.

    For what it's worth I believe that 5.4 now defaults to UTF-8.

    -- 
    Seeya...Q
    

    Quinton Dolan - qdola..mail.com Gold Coast, QLD, Australia (GMT+10) Ph: +61 419 729 806



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