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

[Daniel Fuchs]

On 11/19/14 9:36 PM, Mandy Chung wrote:
> 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.
Do you mean that the property files will no longer be stripped of their 
comments?
This is what is causing the issue. 'sed' doesn't like the special character.

-- daniel

>
> 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 
>