(10) RFR of JDK-8181912,Refactor locale related shell test test/java/io/File/MacPathTest.sh to java test

[Naoto Sato]

Hi,

Setting the default Java Locale and/or user.* properties has nothing to 
do with the default encoding. The default encoding on mac/unix 
environments is determined from the environment variable LC_CTYPE.

Naoto

On 6/14/17 8:35 PM, Hamlin Li wrote:
> 
> On 2017/6/15 1:22, Alan Bateman wrote:
>> On 12/06/2017 09:00, Hamlin Li wrote:
>>> Would you please review the below patch?
>>>
>>> bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8181912
>>>
>>> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mli/8181912/webrev.00/
>>>
>> Are you sure that setting the user.* properties on the command 
>> actually works? I assume we'll have to change this back at some point 
>> to launch the test with LC_ALL set to UTF-8.
> Hi Alan,
> 
> Besides of setting user.language and user.country, the patch also sets 
> file.encoding, and sun.jnu.encoding as UTF-8.
> 
> I understand your concern: we're not sure if setting -Dxxx properties 
> will have totally same functionality as setting env variable LC_ALL. I 
> have no answer for this question.
> What tests have been done:
>   1. set user.* properties will affect what Locale.getDefault() gets, 
> set file.encoding will affect what 
> java.nio.charset.Charset.defaultCharset() gets.
>   2. jprt passed.
>   3. test on some other mac machine in SQE pool.
> 
> Do you suggest we should keep this test as shell?
> 
> Thank you
> -Hamlin
>>
>> -Alan
>