[CONFIGURATION-35] [configuration] PropertiesConfiguration.load should default to encoding "8859_1"

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.2

Environment

Operating System: other
Platform: Other

• Bugzilla Id: 36699
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Will Glass-Husain
• Created: 19/Sep/05 05:11
• Updated: 22/Aug/09 19:36
• Resolved: 22/Aug/09 19:36

Description

Same issue as:

http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17616

Copied from 17616

The default load method for commons.collections.ExtendedProperties currently
loads properties using the default JVM encoding. The default load() method
should use "8859_1" encoding.

Rationale:
1) consistency: java.util.Properties.load() method always uses "8859_1"
2) properties resources are always 8859_1, by convention.
2) On edbcic machines, particularly IBM mainframes, the default encoding is
Cp1047 (ebcdic), but properties files are always ASCII (ISO8859-1)
3) This bug causes many Apache tools, such as Velocity, which uses
commons.collections, to fail on non-ascii machines, since they distribute
properties resources which are (correctly) in 8859-1.