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

[prasanta sadhukhan]

Hi Phil,

On 10/30/2015 12:33 AM, Phil Race wrote:
> 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 ??
>
I was trying a different approach that time which was causing that 
problem. This fix does not have that problem and works.

Regards
Prasanta
> -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
>>
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