JDK 9 RFR of 8039474: sun.misc.CharacterDecoder.decodeBuffer should use getBytes(iso8859-1) (original) (raw)

Brian Burkhalter brian.burkhalter at oracle.com
Thu Apr 10 17:59:31 UTC 2014


How can one keep it symmetrical without forcing a particular encoding?

Brian

On Apr 10, 2014, at 10:54 AM, Mike Duigou <mike.duigou at oracle.com> wrote:

Shouldn't we be using the platform default character set rather than iso8859-1?

This change will change the charset used for all platforms not using iso885901 as their default. It is certainly odd that sun.misc.CharacterEncoder(byte) and sun.misc.CharacterDecoder(String) are not symmetrical but this seems like a serious historical wart we might need to preserve.



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