Adding new IBM extended charsets

[Nasser Ebrahim]

Sure Magnus. Thank you for your suggestion.

Once am ready with the prototype, I will initiate the infrastructure 
related discussion to  build-dev at openjdk.java.net and continue the 
streamlining of the extended charsets related discussion here.

Thank you,
Nasser Ebrahim





From:   Magnus Ihse Bursie <magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com>
To:     Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com>, Nasser Ebrahim 
<enasser at in.ibm.com>, core-libs-dev at openjdk.java.net, build-dev 
<build-dev at openjdk.java.net>
Date:   08/22/2018 02:27 PM
Subject:        Re: Adding new IBM extended charsets



On 2018-08-05 20:38, Alan Bateman wrote:
>
> As regards the way forward then I think we have to put infrastructure 
> into the build to make it easy to allow specific charsets be included 
> or excluded from specific platforms. As things stand, and as have you 
> have found with your updates to the stdcs-<platform> files, the 
> charsets are generated to be included in either java.base or 
> jdk.charsets. We need another input to the configurability to make it 
> possible to include or exclude so that the main stream platforms do 
> not have to include the IBM charsets. There are several details around 
> this, particularly around aliases, but if we can get that done then we 
> have a lot of flexibility. 

And when you are ready to discuss the required build changes, please 
head over to build-dev at openjdk.java.net. ;-)

The build part of the charset handling is less-than-ideal. I hope we can 
find a way to clean this up as well, as part of streamlining the 
included charsets.

/Magnus