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

[Mandy Chung]

resources.jar will be gone when we move to the modular runtime image 
(JEP 220 [1]).
JDK-8065138 and JDK-8065365 will become non-issue in JDK 9.

Mandy
[1] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/220

On 11/19/2014 10:15 AM, Daniel Fuchs wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Hmmm. If the character is indeed legal then you're right, fixing
> the build is probably a better idea.
>
> However the issue seems to be with using 'sed' over property files:
>
> If I simply do:
>
>   cat 
> jaxp/src/java.xml/share/classes/com/sun/org/apache/xml/internal/serializer/Encodings.properties 
> | sed 's,x,x,g'
>
> on my machine, it balks with:
>
> sed: RE error: illegal byte sequence