[External] : Re: What causes java.lang.InternalError: platform encoding not initialized ?

[Scott Palmer]

> On Sep 21, 2021, at 11:40 AM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> On 21/09/2021 15:54, Andy Herrick wrote:
>> 
>> I found the problem in open/src/jdk.jpackage/windows/native/applauncher/WinLauncher.cpp
>> 
>> we call SetDllDirectory() with the path to the bin dir in the default runtime directory, not the actual runtime directory.
>> 
>> since on Windows we never use other than the default runtime location - we had not seen a problem, but is bug I will file and fix.
>> 
> Good to see that you found it quickly. However I'm puzzled as why initializingEncoding wasn't called, I would have expected the VM to blow up during early startup. Would you have cycles to dig into that a bit more in case something has been masked, like for example an exception being swallowed.  Running with -Xlog:exceptions might reveal something.


Do you have a case that reproduces the issue?

Scott