Adding new IBM extended charsets (original) (raw)

Nasser Ebrahim enasser at in.ibm.com
Wed Aug 22 18:27:21 UTC 2018

Sure Magnus. Thank you for your suggestion.

Once am ready with the prototype, I will initiate the infrastructure related discussion to build-dev at openjdk.java.net and continue the streamlining of the extended charsets related discussion here.

Thank you, Nasser Ebrahim

From: Magnus Ihse Bursie <magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com> To: Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com>, Nasser Ebrahim <enasser at in.ibm.com>, core-libs-dev at openjdk.java.net, build-dev <build-dev at openjdk.java.net> Date: 08/22/2018 02:27 PM Subject: Re: Adding new IBM extended charsets

On 2018-08-05 20:38, Alan Bateman wrote:

As regards the way forward then I think we have to put infrastructure into the build to make it easy to allow specific charsets be included or excluded from specific platforms. As things stand, and as have you have found with your updates to the stdcs- files, the charsets are generated to be included in either java.base or jdk.charsets. We need another input to the configurability to make it possible to include or exclude so that the main stream platforms do not have to include the IBM charsets. There are several details around this, particularly around aliases, but if we can get that done then we have a lot of flexibility.

And when you are ready to discuss the required build changes, please head over to build-dev at openjdk.java.net. ;-)

The build part of the charset handling is less-than-ideal. I hope we can find a way to clean this up as well, as part of streamlining the included charsets.

/Magnus

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