RFR: 8372155: ReleaseInfoPlugin doesn't handle input file as UTF-8 properly [v4]

[Severin Gehwolf]

On Mon, 24 Nov 2025 09:54:34 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <jpai at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Should anything be specified/noted for the encoding of the key/value of the release-info plugin?
> 
> ```
> --release-info <key1>=<value1>
> ```

I don't think so. In my testing on Linux with `en_US.UTF-8` `LANG` those are working fine:


$ ./jdk/bin/jlink --add-modules java.base --output ./build/testme --release-info 'add:myval=ööaßÄ oy'
$ grep myval ./build/testme/release 
myval=ööaßÄ oy
$ locale | grep LANG
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28399#issuecomment-3569958109