Ed Merks

@yasmimIPM I'm sure somewhere we would just need to use an appropriate collator. Probably a simple change. But, being the person who does the release engineering, I have no idea...

I had to change the URI to be absolute for this to work. The problem is that here it's using String.compare which does a compare based on unicode character order,...

> I don't know how to fix this. This fixes the problem using `com.ibm.icu.text.Collator`: The question is, are folks comfortable with that fix? It seems to me using the collator...

That method is **really widely** used already. 🤪 I can create a PR and see how it goes with the tests...

The fix is available here: https://download.eclipse.org/birt/updates/nightly/latest/

I had a look at https://download.eclipse.org/releases/mars/201506241002/content.jar and it looks like there are ~500,000 occurrences of `&` in that content.xml ``` $sed 's/&/&\n/g' < content.xml | grep -c '&' 526897 ```...

I created an SDK installation with Java 24+26 and could reproduce this problem in the repository explorer. Only setting **both** of these properties in the eclipse.ini allows the repositories https://download.eclipse.org/releases/2024-12...

You can't always know what people others are doing and why. I think the net effect of such a decision is that an unknown number of people will get stuck...

Sounds much like this issue https://github.com/eclipse-birt/birt/issues/1172 The best way to make something happen is to do it. As far as I know many are hoping someone will do it ,...

Note that it's actually already a lot of work to keep things afloat with the ever changing dependencies that BIRT uses, e.g., https://github.com/eclipse-birt/birt/issues/2271 Nothing just keeps working forever. So while...