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A while ago, we had a problem with international characters being mangled on parameters from an URL, which at the end made us uncover, that we had just relied on defaults for the setting of URL Input Encoding. And that can be a problem.
What URL Input Encoding Is
When a HTTP GET or POST request arrive [...]

…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 [...]