docs: add windows development setup guide and fix encoding #3073
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Motivation
Currently, setting up a local development environment on Windows can be challenging due to Docker/WSL configuration and encoding issues.
Changes
docs/WINDOWS_DEVELOPMENT.md: A comprehensive step-by-step guide for Windows users covering:build.gradle: Added explicitUTF-8encoding forJavaCompileandScalaCompiletasks. This fixes theunmappable character for encoding windows-1252error encountered on Windows systems.Verification
gradle buildsucceeds after applying the UTF-8 fix.