[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] [9] RFR: JDK-8139216: Non-ASCII characters in CUPS printer names are not properly displayed

[Phil Race]

On 10/25/2015 11:56 PM, prasanta sadhukhan wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have modified the fix to assign printer name in case 
> UnsupportedEncodingException is thrown which is unlikely as we are 
> using UTF-8 as character encoding and not any user-supplied encoding.
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psadhukhan/8139216/webrev.01/

It should be impossible as it would contradict the SE spec to not
support UTF-8
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html

Anyway, off-list you said that even with this change you could not then
open a connection because URLConnection was throwing an
IOException. Is that somehow resolved ??

-phil.

>
> Regards
> Prasanta
> On 10/15/2015 4:16 PM, prasanta sadhukhan wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Please review a fix for jdk9 where it was found that non-ASCII 
>> characters in CUPS printer name are not properly displayed.
>>
>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8139216
>> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psadhukhan/8139216/webrev.00/
>>
>> It was found that  the printer "äbc" (with the German umlaut "ä" as 
>> the first character) is displayed as "%C3%A4bc" in printer name.
>> Fixed to use the UTF-8 charset to decode the printer name.
>>
>> I could not add any test because it involves adding printer having 
>> unicode character like "lpadmin -p "äbc" -v 
>> http://example.org/printer3 -E"
>>
>> Regards
>> Prasanta
>