JDK 1.7.0_25: apps launched via double click .app with incorrect file.encoding=US-ASCII (original) (raw)

Fabrizio Giudici Fabrizio.Giudici at tidalwave.it
Wed Jul 31 06:03:58 PDT 2013

This sounds to be a similar issue to "Java 8 RFR 8011194: Apps launched
via double-clicked .jars have file.encoding value of US-ASCII on Mac OS
X": that discussion actually helped me in sorting out the problem.

In short, I have a Mac OS X .app which is created with an embedded JRE.
When launched by means of "open .../App.app" by terminal all is fine. I
suppose this happens because I have in my termnal env:

LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LANG=en_US.UTF-8

When launched by double-clicking on the icon, the file.encoding is set to
US-ASCII and problems happen. This happens with JDK 1.7.0_25. I can
provide more info and code if needed.

Is it a problem with JDK 1.7.0_25? With my Info.plist? Or something else?
How should I quickly fix the problem? Setting file.encoding and
sun.jnu.encoding to UTF-8 in the Info.plist?

Thanks.

-- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect @ Tidalwave s.a.s. "We make Java work. Everywhere." http://tidalwave.it/fabrizio/blog - fabrizio.giudici at tidalwave.it

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