RFR: 8354464: Additional cleanup setting up native.encoding [v2]

[Alan Bateman]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 03:24:26 GMT, Stuart Marks <smarks at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Remove the #ifdef MACOSX from platform-independent System.c, which (on Mac) sets native.encoding from sprops.encoding or (on non-Mac Unix and Windows) sets native.encoding from sprops.sun_jnu_encoding. After this removal, the native.encoding property will be set from sprops.encoding and the sun.jnu.encoding property will be set from sprops.sun_jnu_encoding.
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>> Change the windows java_props_md.c so that it initializes sprops.sun_jnu_encoding and then copies that value to sprops.encoding. Previously, sprops.encoding was initialized with data from other Windows APIs, but this value was ignored by platform-independent code, which was kind of confusing.
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>> There are no changes to the Unix (Mac & non-Mac) platform-specific code. It already has code to set sprops.encoding and sprops.sun_jnu_encoding properly, including macOS-specific code to set the latter to UTF-8 unconditionally.
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>> There should be no behavior changes on any platform.
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>> I changed variable names in windows/java_props_md.c to make it clear that the values stored into them are unused. Of course there are other possibilities here, such as changing the interface to SetupI18nProps(). I'm open to suggestions.
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> Stuart Marks has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains four additional commits since the last revision:
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>  - Move asserts into platform-independent code.
>  - Merge branch 'master' into JDK-8354464-additional-cleanup-native-encoding
>  - Rename variables to make clear they're not used.
>  - 8354464: Additional cleanup setting up native.encoding

I've gone through this, I don't see any issues.

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Marked as reviewed by alanb (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24607#pullrequestreview-2772512457