RFR: 8214533 IBM-29626C is required for AIX default charset

[Ichiroh Takiguchi]

Hello Alan.

I opened JDK-8215333 for Charset filtering issue [1].
I cannot wait until JDK-8215333 is closed.
Is it possible to put IBM-29626C charset with standard way ?

[1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8215333

Thanks,
Ichiroh Takiguchi

On 2018-12-10 21:21, Ichiroh Takiguchi wrote:
> Hello Roger, Magnus and Alan.
> I may need to put alias information into charsets file.
> stdcs-xxx cannot handle this information...
> 
> Still AIX needs IBM-29626C charset for default encoding...
> 
> I appreciate if you give me further suggestions.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ichiroh Takiguchi
> 
> On 2018-12-10 20:50, Alan Bateman wrote:
>> On 10/12/2018 11:01, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
>>> On 2018-12-07 21:20, Roger Riggs wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> It is a nice feature that charsets are selected at build time using 
>>>> the stdcs-xxx files.
>>>> This change breaks that pattern and embeds os specific information 
>>>> in more than one place.
>>>> That does not seem like an improvement.  Is there any alternative?
>>> I agree. Why is it not enough just to add it to stdcs-aix?
>> My reading of the patch is that the "os" key is to avoid generating it
>> on non-AIX platforms, it will otherwise end up in jdk.charsets on
>> non-AIX platforms. The general direction is welcome but I think
>> further work and discussion will be needed to get the right set of
>> changes to support filtering in the build. It can probably be
>> separated from the changes to add IBM-29626C to AIX's java.base.
>> 
>> -Alan