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

mark.reinhold at oracle.com mark.reinhold at oracle.com
Fri Aug 27 17:20:40 UTC 2021


2021/8/18 9:20:00 -0700, 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.

Hearing no objections, I’ve targeted this JEP to JDK 18.

- Mark


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