[antlr-interest] antlr3, no class such as ANTLRInputStream...

[Martin Probst]

Hi,

> BTW, to get on topic again, how does Java (= the library) deal with  
> encodings? Is that something that's built in, or does one have to
> hack around a lot?

Actually, it's built in in a way that makes it a real pain not to  
handle it, normally. In Java you have InputStreams for binary and  
Readers for characters. You can only create a Reader from an  
InputStream by specifying the charset (well, or leaving it to take  
the platform default).

My general impression is that those encoding issues are a much bigger  
problem on Windows than on any other platform, with Cp1252, UTF-8,  
UCS-2 etc. mixed heavily. Most Linux systems I've seen simply use  
UTF-8 or ASCII (for old systems).

Martin