RFR: JDK-8077992 Eliminate JDK build dependency of native2ascii and update Japanese nroff man pages to UTF-8 encoding

[Michael Fang]

Thanks Magnus and Mandy for taking care of build changes.

-michael

On 2015年04月17日 06:52, Mandy Chung wrote:
> On 4/17/2015 6:09 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
>> From bug report: "Proposal has been made to remove "native2ascii" 
>> tool from JDK9.
>>
>> It was identified that JDK9 uses "native2ascii" itself to convert 
>> Japanese nroff man pages to various encodings (Linux: UTF-8, Solaris: 
>> UTF-8, PCK/SJIS) from eucJP source. [...] Since the supported Solaris 
>> and Linux OS releases now support UTF-8 locales by default, we should 
>> just deliver UTF-8 encoded nroff man pages and eliminate the 
>> conversion process. "
>>
>> Michael Fang has supplied a patch that converts the man pages to 
>> UTF8. My fix here will need that patch applied to the jdk repo to 
>> work. I'll not supply it in the webrev though, it's large and hardly 
>> readable. It is attached to the bug report.
>>
>> Note that the removal of the sed expression is safe since the VERSION 
>> tag is long gone.
>>
>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8077992
>> WebRev: 
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ihse/JDK-8077992-remove-native2ascii-from-build/webrev.01
>>
>
> The build change looks good to me.   Thanks for doing this.
>
> Mandy