[IBATIS-784] Resources should use UTF-8 as default encoding

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 3.0 GA Candidate
• Component/s: Core
• Environment: WinXP, Java 6
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Björn Raupach
• Created: 26/Apr/10 09:09
• Updated: 02/May/10 11:28
• Resolved: 02/May/10 11:28

Description

If german umlauts appear in the mapper files the the application crashes with an sql exception, because the umlauts are not properly encoded e.g. Pers‚îú√ÇnlicheKontakte instead of PersönlicheKontakte.

Setting the Charset explicitly to UTF-8 solves this issue.

[..]
Resources.setCharset(Charset.forName("UTF-8"));
reader = Resources.getResourceAsReader(resource);
SqlSessionFactory factory = new SqlSessionFactoryBuilder().build(reader,props);
[..]

Maybe UTF-8 should be set as the default charset not the system charset. After all the xml files are declared as utf-8 in the header.