JEP 400 - UTF-8 by Default

[Naoto Sato]

Yes, that is correct.

As long as javac uses the default encoding from 
`Charset.defaultCharset()`, it will automatically use `UTF-8` as the 
default encoding for the input source files.

Naoto

On 8/30/21 1:17 AM, Jan Lahoda wrote:
> On 29. 08. 21 12:19, Attila Kelemen wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have read the description of JEP 400, but it does not mention the 
>> default source encoding. Will javac be changed as well?
> 
> 
> As far as I can tell, the default encoding that javac itself uses is 
> `Charset.defaultCharset().name()`. So I think that when 
> `Charset.defaultCharset().name()` starts to return "UTF-8", javac will 
> start to read the source files in the UTF-8 encoding, unless a different 
> encoding is specified in a javac option, or unless the javac is invoked 
> with a custom JavaFileManager which does the conversion on its own.
> 
> 
> Jan
> 
> 
>>
>> Given that standard APIs change, it would be nice, since platform 
>> dependent encoding was just a nuisance anyway, and (at least to me) 
>> seems a lot less risky than the standard API change.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Attila