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  1. Maven
  2. MNG-2216

Add default encodings section to POM

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    • Improvement
    • Status: Closed
    • Major
    • Resolution: Won't Fix
    • 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3
    • None
    • FDPFC, POM::Encoding
    • None

    Description

      Look at the attached example POM.

      Do you see many duplicate configuration properties ('UTF-8') in it? and the names of properties are very inconsistent.

      It would be great if:

      1) Add a global section which specifies default encodings:

      <defaultEncodings>
          <!-- Default: UTF-8 -->
          <inputEncoding>UTF-8</inputEncoding>
          <!-- Will be the same with inputEncoding if not specified. -->
          <outputEncoding>UTF-8</outputEncoding>
      </defaultEncodings>

      2) Make encoding properties in all plugins to be consistent and deprecate old properties. The default values could be:

      inputEncoding = ${pom.encoding.input}
      outputEncoding = ${pom.encoding.output}

      so users can override the default settings easily.

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        1. example-pom.xml
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          Trustin Lee

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