19 May
IntelliJ IDEA 8 Will Kill the EncodingPlugin
…which is a good thing.
I just read the post New Approach to Encoding in IntelliJ IDEA, which outlines new features in the upcoming IntelliJ IDEA version 8 with respect to file encoding. It has long time been a problem, that IDEA only had an IDE-level setting for encoding of files. It was this problem, that led me to write the EncodingPlugin, which at least could warn you, to keep you from trashing files with other encoding, than the IDE-level setting.
With the new features coming in v8 on encoding, I am quite confident, that my EncodingPlugin will have no use in future IDEA versions. And that is a good thing!
