RFR [9]: Remove character coders from sun.misc

[Chris Hegarty]

> On 14 Dec 2015, at 9:51 p.m., Roger Riggs <Roger.Riggs at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> +1

Thanks for the review Roger.

> Removing dead code is great!

It sure is!

-Chris

> Roger
> 
> 
>> On 12/14/2015 4:15 PM, Chris Hegarty wrote:
>> As part of the preparation for JEP 260 [1], and the cleanup of technical debt in
>> sun.misc, I am proposing to remove the character coders.
>> 
>> Base abstract classes for the coders.
>>   $ hg rm src/java.base/share/classes/sun/misc/CharacterEncoder.java
>>   $ hg rm src/java.base/share/classes/sun/misc/CharacterDecoder.java
>> 
>> Base64, replaced with standard API in Java SE 8 [2].
>>   $ hg rm src/java.base/share/classes/sun/misc/BASE64Decoder.java
>>   $ hg rm src/java.base/share/classes/sun/misc/BASE64Encoder.java
>> 
>> Uuencoding [3], most recently seen in use back in 2006 in ant 1.6.5, before
>> being replaced in 1.7.0 with their own copy.
>>   $ hg rm src/java.base/share/classes/sun/misc/UUDecoder.java
>>   $ hg rm src/java.base/share/classes/sun/misc/UUEncoder.java
>> 
>> Lesser known coders designed to convert binary data into printable characters.
>> The characters are assumed to exist, but they are not assumed to be ASCII.
>> No sightings in the wild!
>>   $ hg rm src/java.base/share/classes/sun/misc/UCDecoder.java
>>   $ hg rm src/java.base/share/classes/sun/misc/UCEncoder.java
>> 
>> Related tests:
>>   $ hg rm test/sun/misc/Encode/
>>   removing test/sun/misc/Encode/DecodeBuffer.java
>>   removing test/sun/misc/Encode/Encode.java
>>   removing test/sun/misc/Encode/GetBytes.java
>> 
>> -Chris.
>> 
>> [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8132928
>> [2] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Base64.html
>> [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uuencoding
>