Discrimination of Character

Java, if anything, is the spokesthingy for UTF8. NetBeans IDE is written in Java. So why the heck is the default character encoding for files in NetBeans anything other than UTF8 (I'm guessing ISO Latin 9 or something similar). In fact, you can't even change that in the settings. No, you have to go to a config file, and enter "-J-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8" by hand in a config line. WHAT!? WHY!? That's right. Monumental. Foundering.

Apart from that and the fact that scrolling the source code down with a scrollwheel is strangely slow, NetBeans 6.5 shows a lot of potential in the PHP front of things. Code completion, PHPDoc recognition, even code mistake hints, it's all good. Oh, but I do miss my Cmd-D and Alt-up/down, even if I can live without them.

LightFrame is in the back burner. Not forgotten, not suspended, but I'm simply not trying to find time/energy/inspiration for it. If I happen to find any of the three, I'll try to write a line or two, but it's not systematic. With a wedding coming up, in which I play a somewhat central role, the imminent honeymoon thereafter and an ensuing of reparations/restorations of a certain and recently aquired terraced house, I'm wondering whether the not-actually-at-all-official release date of 01.01.09 will hold.

But, once the fixer-upper is fixed-upped, I finally get my own study, with my own pseudo-privacy. Maybe that's when I start really churning forth the code.