<i18n dev> RFR: 8301971: Make JDK source code UTF-8 [v3]

[Yi Yang]

On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 16:26:59 GMT, Naoto Sato <naoto at openjdk.org> wrote:

>>> We will probably need to make sure things are ok on Windows as well (they are the other confusing environment)
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>> Windows is much more painful to work with, since there is no correspondence of `LC_ALL`; you must set the user's locale. There is a rather long paragraph detailing the requirements for building without problems in the build README.
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>> Is there some specific problem you are worried about on Windows that you were thinking about?
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>> Is there some specific problem you are worried about on Windows that you were thinking about?
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> I would have tested on non-English (preferrably Chinese/Japanese) Windows where users set it to English. I believe we had issues from contributors in those areas.

> @naotoj Unfortunately, I do not have the possibility to test on a Windows machine with Chinese locale.
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> I'll ping Yi Yang who was behind #3107, a suggested solution for [JDK-8263028](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8263028). That is the best I was able to dig up for any contributor that clearly had run into this kind of problems before.
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> @y1yang0 Can you please help us to test this patch so it works properly on Windows computers with Chinese locale?

Sorry, I haven't worked on JDK for a while. Maybe @Glavo?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24574#issuecomment-2856775920