[josm-dev] JOSM charset

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Frederik Ramm wrote:

>> now that I found a charset conflict in measurement plugin: Is there any
>> definition in which charset the jar files are?
>
> You mean the java source code files? I don't see why they should be
> anything else than good old 7-byte ASCII. We don't want any national
> language characters in there anyway (they belong to the language
> plugins). But since a 7-byte ASCII file is, by definition, a valid UTF-8
> file as well... I don't care. Just don't put anything above 0x7F in your
> source, ok ;-)

Well, the problem is measurement plugin, which uses degree symbol "°".

Not so easy to get that into ASCII except writing "deg".

Ciao
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