<i18n dev> RFR: 8195686: ISO-8859-8-i charset cannot be decoded, should be mapped to ISO-8859-8

[Jason Mehrens]

On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 16:31:21 GMT, Naoto Sato <naoto at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> @naotoj does the mapping need to be removed from:
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>> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/5e5942a282e14846404b68c65d43594d6b9226d9/src/java.xml/share/classes/com/sun/org/apache/xerces/internal/util/EncodingMap.java#L770
>> 
>> I ask because JakartaMail /Angus Mail is a similar usecase to this code.
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> @jmehrens I would like to, but I don't know the possible issues that would be caused by the removal. So my take is no.

@naotoj Makes sense. I did find a few links:

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/handling_non_utf_8_hebrew

https://support.oracle.com/knowledge/Oracle%20Cloud/2991085_1.html

Any advice on adding the alias to JakartaMail?  I see web search results of libraries using what is done in xerces so I'm trying to balance your advice with that.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20690#issuecomment-2350716557