Adding new IBM extended charsets

[Nasser Ebrahim]

Hi Florian,

Thank you for your response. iconv is platform dependent and not good for 
the platform agnostic nature of Java. Also, many charsets in Java are not 
available across platforms. I believe Java decided to have its own 
charsets due to those reasons so that it can work seamlessly on any 
supported platforms.

Thank you,
Nasser Ebrahim 



From:   Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat.com>
To:     Nasser Ebrahim <enasser at in.ibm.com>, Java Core Libs 
<core-libs-dev at openjdk.java.net>
Date:   07/04/2018 07:11 PM
Subject:        Re: Adding new IBM extended charsets



On 07/04/2018 02:41 PM, Nasser Ebrahim wrote:
> Please share your thoughts on your preferred option and list out any 
other
> options which I missed out. Thank you for your time.

Could you use the platform iconv implementation instead?  That would 
avoid shipping the tables in the JDK.

Thanks,
Florian