native2ascii to be removed from JDK

Mandy Chung mandy.chung at oracle.com
Wed Apr 1 18:12:45 UTC 2015


We're thinking about removing native2ascii from JDK because we think 
very few people are using it.

There are several other convenient ways to do native-to-ascii 
conversion.  For example, IDEs like NetBeans and IntelliJ support the 
transparent native-to-ascii conversion. There is also maven native 2 
ascii plugin.   These tools are better integration to the 
build/development process than the standalone native2ascii CLI.

In addition, JEP 226 proposes to support UTF Properties file that will 
address the original motivation of creating the native2ascii tool.

Any comment?
Mandy


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