RFC: System.console().encoding()

[Aleksey Shipilev]

Hi,

Claes pointed out that our own reflective hacks to figure out console
encoding do not work anymore [1]. But, we need the console encoding for
reliably printing on the console from within different sources. Note
that you would normally just use System.console() and its PrintWriter,
but reality is a bit more complicated, and sometimes you need to write
the plain char stream directly into the byte[]-accepting methods,
encoding on your own.

So, my question: should we, in the light of extended Jigsaw-solving
crunch, provide the public Console.encoding() method that would return
the console charset?

Thanks,
-Aleksey

[1]
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jmh-dev/2016-September/002330.html