RFR: 8065138 - Encodings.isRecognizedEnconding sometimes fails to recognize 'UTF8'

[Martin Buchholz]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 3:17 AM, Daniel Fuchs <daniel.fuchs at oracle.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please find below a trivial fix for
>
> 8065138: Encodings.isRecognizedEnconding sometimes fails to
>          recognize 'UTF8'
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8065138
>
> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dfuchs/webrev_8065138/webrev.00/
>
> The root of the issue is with
> jaxp/src/java.xml/share/classes/com/sun/org/apache/xml/internal/serializer/Encodings.properties
> It contains a special character 'å' which confuses the build
> system on Mavericks.

Isn't that a bug in the build system that really ought to be fixed?

If properties files are to be stored as resources in jar files, they
should either be incorporated byte-for-byte identical, or they should
be decoded using ISO-8859-1 (as specified).  It may be best to leave
non-ASCII characters in the source files, as a "test" of the build
system and the jdk itself.

> The Encodings.properties file ends up truncated in resources.jar - it
> contains only one line (the line before the special character was
> encountered).
> The fix is to replace the special character 'å' by its unicode
> representation \u00e5.
>
> best regards,
>
> -- daniel
>