JEP proposed to target JDK 18: 400: UTF-8 by Default
Naoto Sato
naoto.sato at oracle.com
Wed Aug 18 19:49:33 UTC 2021
Hi Simon,
Please post your comments at core-libs-dev mailing list, where the
discussion should take place.
Naoto
On 8/18/21 12:01 PM, Simon Nash wrote:
> How should someone who is not a JDK Project Committer or Reviewer
> provide input to this proposal? The principle is good but I am concerned
> about the compatibility implications.
>
> Simon
>
> On 18/08/2021 17:20, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
>> 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
>>
>
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