RFR: 8132459: ExceptionInInitializerError from 'java -version' on Linux under zh_CN.GB18030 locale

[Volker Simonis]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 30/07/2015 06:21, Xueming Shen wrote:
>>
>> :
>>
>> Each platform has a list of "supported locale/encoding". All these
>> encodings/charsets need to be in
>> base module for that particular platform, to support the jvm to start (in
>> a particular locale/encoding)
>> under module system. The charsets in our repository can be categorized
>> into different groups, solaris/
>> linux specific, windows specific and IBM specific and couple that are
>> shared by different platforms).
>> The idea here is to build all those platform-specific charsets into the
>> base module for that platform.
>
> Right, and furthermore, we should be able to build a compact1 image or just
> an image with the java.base module and it should be able to start on
> platforms when running with a supported locale/encoding. I think the main
> issue we've had is establishing that list, hence it had to be extended a few
> times.
>

The change looks fine.

But what about the 'supported locale/encoding' list. Is there a
published 'official' version of this list for Oracle/OpenJDK and how
is it maintained.

Regards,
Volker

> -Alan.