[CONFIGURATION-345] PropertiesConfiguration does not use the default encoding to load files

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.5
• Fix Version/s: 1.6

Environment

Win XP / Sun JVM 1.5.0_14

• Assignee: Oliver Heger
• Reporter: Guillaume Darmont
• Created: 03/Nov/08 10:45
• Updated: 22/Aug/09 19:36
• Resolved: 08/Nov/08 21:17

Description

The piece of code

PropertiesConfiguration.java

    // initialization block to set the encoding before loading the file in the constructors
    {
        setEncoding(DEFAULT_ENCODING);
    }

seems to set correctly the default encoding, but this block is called after "super()" in constructors.

So when using either PropertiesConfiguration(java.io.File file), PropertiesConfiguration(java.lang.String fileName) or PropertiesConfiguration(java.net.URL url), the super() statement is called, and it loads the file without the default encoding.