Encoding issues with '±' on Windows

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On 12/18/2014 05:42 PM, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> On 12/18/2014 03:53 PM, Matt Warren wrote:
>> When I run any JMH Benchmark within the Windows Console, the '±' is
>> replaced with a '▒'. This makes the benchmarks a bit confusing when you
>> first run them as '±' is used quite a bit.
> 
> Thanks, I have reproduced this on my (dusty) Windows dev machine.

UTF support in Windows is still an abomination, I see.

> Filed:
>  https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/CODETOOLS-7901217

So, using System.console() directly is not an option for us, since we
also need to push the "already encoded" stdout/stderr from the forked
VM. After trying the alternatives, I can conclude that the one of the
least messier ways to deal with this is to poke the Charset out of
Console, and use it:
 http://hg.openjdk.java.net/code-tools/jmh/rev/9453f3e72b6e

It works on my Linux/Windows machines well.

I would appreciate more testing ASAP.

Thanks,
-Aleksey.