JDK 9 RFR of 8039474: sun.misc.CharacterDecoder.decodeBuffer should use getBytes(iso8859-1)

[Brian Burkhalter]

How can one keep it symmetrical without forcing a particular encoding?

Brian

On Apr 10, 2014, at 10:54 AM, Mike Duigou <mike.duigou at oracle.com> wrote:

> Shouldn't we be using the platform default character set rather than iso8859-1?
> 
> This change will change the charset used for all platforms not using iso885901 as their default.
> 
> It is certainly odd that sun.misc.CharacterEncoder(byte) and sun.misc.CharacterDecoder(String) are not symmetrical but this seems like a serious historical wart we might need to preserve.