RFR: 8065138 - Encodings.isRecognizedEnconding sometimes fails to recognize 'UTF8'

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2014-11-21 22:40, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> A high-level followup ...
>
> Running most text-based OS tools, including sed and sort, is risky
> because the user's encoding may be different from the encoding of
> source files in the JDK (of course, this is particularly problematic
> with properties files, which must be ISO-8859-1).  These tools will
> probably work better when run with LC_ALL=C.  We should consider
> changing the definition of SED and SORT to something like
> $(ENV) LC_ALL=C sed
I agree. We should use LC_ALL=C on a more generic level, preferrably by 
prefixing all, or a selected set of tools with that. I opened 
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8065704 to track that.

>
> As for set -o pipefail, it is sad that every single pipeline in the
> makefiles is vulnerable to failure to detect broken builds.
Fortunately, we already require bash for building, so given that -o 
pipefail it is not a too new invention in bash, we can enable it quite 
easily. Erik has already opened a bug for that, 
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8065576.

/Magnus