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Quiz: Default Encoding of Java Source Files

Quickly, without peeking into the documentation, answer this question:

When you run javac Foo.java, what encoding does the Java compiler assumes Foo.java to be in?

Is it UTF-8? UTF-16? ISO-8859-1? ASCII with escaped Unicode? Or something else?

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Posted by Weiqi Gao on May 10, 2004 1:23:12 PM CDT #


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Re: Quiz: Default Encoding of Java Source Files

Comment from Maik on May 10, 2004 2:05:06 PM CDT #
I'd say UTF-8.
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Re: Quiz: Default Encoding of Java Source Files

Comment from Anonymous on May 10, 2004 2:16:29 PM CDT #
The default platform encoding.
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Re: Quiz: Default Encoding of Java Source Files

Comment from Weiqi Gao on May 11, 2004 9:20:17 AM CDT #

It's the default platform encoding: Cp1252 on a Windows machine setup to the US English locale, and Ms932 on a Windows machine setup to the Japanese locale.

We had a unit test for a sorting routine using the Collator on accented characters that started failing with we changed the machine's regional settings from US English to Japanese.


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