RFR: 8234835 Use UTF-8 charset in make support Java code

[Martin Buchholz]

The ubiquitous use of UTF-8 is one of the few clear successes in the
software world.
In 2019, most software projects should declare that all their source files
are encoded in UTF-8, not US-ASCII.

On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 9:04 AM Dan Smith <daniel.smith at oracle.com> wrote:

> Please review this patch to make explicit use of the UTF-8 charset in
> build tools' IO code.
>
> JDK-8065704 changed the platform default to US-ASCII, so the intended
> effect of this change is to address a regression and restore the typical
> earlier behavior.
>
> My particular interest is in fixuppandoc, but it seems like we might has
> well patch all of this code to avoid relying on the platform default.
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dlsmith/8234835/