RFR: 8341975: Unable to set encoding for IO.println, IO.print and IO.readln [v3]

[Alan Bateman]

On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 21:43:49 GMT, Naoto Sato <naoto at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Changing the charset initialization of `java.io.Console` class, which is the basis of `java.io.IO`, so that it would behave the same way as `System.out` wrt encoding. This change will also have the capability to override the default charset used in `IO` methods with `stdout.encoding` system property. A corresponding CSR has also been drafted.
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> Naoto Sato has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Explicitly refer to `stdout.encoding`

src/java.base/share/classes/java/io/Console.java line 584:

> 582:      * The returned charset corresponds to the input and output source
> 583:      * (e.g., keyboard and/or display) specified by the host environment or user,
> 584:      * which defaults to the one based on {@link System##stdout.encoding stdtout.encoding}.

In System.getProperties, this is specified for as the encoding for System.out. That may need to be expanded to say Console too.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21569#discussion_r1807215667