RFC: System.console().encoding()

[Xueming Shen]

-1  :-)

Console is supposed to be a "char/String" based class, "encoding" really 
should
have no business here in its api. Simply for some implementation convenience
is really not a good reason to add such a public method.

That said, I would be fine to have such informative info in the system 
properties,
together with its siblings, file,encoding and another "supposed to be 
private"
property sun.jnu.encoding.

sherman


On 9/14/16, 11:42 PM, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> 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
>