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

[Mandy Chung]

On 11/19/2014 3:49 PM, Mandy Chung wrote:
>
> On 11/19/2014 12:50 PM, Daniel Fuchs wrote:
>> 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?
>
> (sorry for my delay in reply as I was trying to get the number of the 
> resources in the modular image vs resources.jar but got distracted.)
>
> The current version copies all bytes when generating the modular 
> image. This is a good question whether we should strip off the 
> comments when writing to the modular runtime image.   I think we 
> should look at the footprint and any performance saving and determine 
> if we should do the same in JDK 9.
>

I looked at the exploded image under BUILD_OUTPUTDIR/jdk/modules/java.xml
and found that the comments of Encodings.properties are stripped.  I was
confused with the mention of resources.jar that I assume it was a step
stripping the comments before writing to resources.jar.  This is still
an issue in jigsaw m2 I believe.

Where does the build strip the comments?

Mandy