Morpho

created a tag of the 1.8.1 code before committing the update to use UTF-8 across the board.
https://code.ecoinformatics.org/code/morpho/tags/BEFORE_UTF-8/

I'll put in a vote for including an explicit encoding declaration in the EML docs that Morpho creates:

This works:
Morpho now using UTF-8 for all reading and writing.
Additionally, special characters are not being escaped because we can encode them with UTF-8.

This does not:
Saving to Metacat (and the subsequent read) result in ????? for characters that should be, say, Chinese. This means (as I suspected) Metacat uses the default character encoding rather than explicitly using UTF-8.

This should be closed. UTF-8 is used exclusively in Morpho - especially important now that we have so much internationalization support

Original Bugzilla ID was 5238