Java May Use UTF-8 as Its Default Charset
Yes, please!  This aligns with my rants on the subject [1] because I want all software to use UTF-8 by default.  In my experience as an application developer nearly all of my character encoding grief has been caused by an application or library somewhere in my overall system architecture not using UTF-8 by default.  This is followed by me needing to find how to configure it.  I am by no means a character encoding expert, but I want everything to use UTF-8 unless there&#x27;s a very particular need for something else (I&#x27;m still waiting to find out what that might be).<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tiamat.tsotech.com&#x2F;utf8-everything" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tiamat.tsotech.com&#x2F;utf8-everything</a>