[rfc][icedtea-web] Console Output Encoding Fix

[Omair Majid]

* Jiri Vanek <jvanek at redhat.com> [2014-07-16 11:36]:
> On 07/16/2014 05:18 PM, Omair Majid wrote:
> >* Jie Kang <jkang at redhat.com> [2014-07-16 10:28]:
> >>+            s = byteStorage.toString("UTF-8");
> >
> >How do you know that the byte array being written is in UTF-8? Is this a
> >safe assumption?
> 
> Well this is tricky :(
> 
> On one side java is iinternally utf8, so it is most safe assumption of unsafe assumptions.

It's actually UCS-2/UTF-16. [1]

> I even think it is better then usage of platform default encoding.

Oh, I *wish* everything used UTF-8 everywhere. But it's only a dream at
this point.

> >>+        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
> >>+            s = byteStorage.toString();
> >
> >If utf8 is missing from the JDK, I would like to think we are screwed.
> >
> Can it? I doubt ...

It really, really shouldn't be missing from the jre. This is one of the
cases where it probably makes sense to throw a RuntimeException
(AssertionError?) to abort rather than trying to continue.

Thanks,
Omair

[1] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html

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