JEP proposed to target JDK 18: 400: UTF-8 by Default

[mark.reinhold at oracle.com]

The following JEP is proposed to target JDK 18:

  400: UTF-8 by Default
       https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/400

  Summary: Specify UTF-8 as the default charset of the standard Java
  APIs.  With this change, APIs that depend upon the default charset
  will behave consistently across all implementations, operating systems,
  locales, and configurations.

Feedback on this proposal from JDK Project Committers and Reviewers [1]
is more than welcome, as are reasoned objections.  If no such objections
are raised by 23:59 UTC on Wednesday, 25 August, or if they’re raised
and then satisfactorily answered, then per the JEP 2.0 process proposal
[2] I’ll target this JEP to JDK 18.

- Mark


[1] https://openjdk.java.net/census#jdk
[2] https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mr/jep/jep-2.0-02.html