System properties

[Andrew Thompson]

On May 27, 2012, at 6:46 PM, Michael Hall wrote:

> Apple 1.6 never seems to give UTF-8 contrary to what Andrew said. It is always MacRoman. Either he was not accurate in what he said or is changing the property to UTF-8 somewhere that he isn't aware of it.


Well now, that's interesting. Running locale and then my program again in the terminal I see

% locale
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

%uname -a 
Darwin Bubbles.local 11.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 11.3.0: Thu Jan 12 18:47:41 PST 2012; root:xnu-1699.24.23~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

% java -version
java version "1.6.0_31"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_31-b04-415-11M3635)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.6-b01-415, mixed mode)

java -cp . FileEncoding
MacRoman
java.vm.version: 20.6-b01-415
file.encoding.pkg: sun.io
java.runtime.version: 1.6.0_31-b04-415-11M3635
java.io.tmpdir: /var/folders/3l/yd1xg64n58l4ll7jnhvc0glm0000gq/T/
sun.jnu.encoding: MacRoman
java.class.version: 50.0
os.version: 10.7.3
file.encoding: MacRoman
java.specification.version: 1.6
java.vm.specification.version: 1.0
java.version: 1.6.0_31
file.separator: /
sun.io.unicode.encoding: UnicodeLittle
mrj.version: 1070.1.6.0_31-415

=> Mac Roman

Running the very same program in Netbeans... which as far as I know execs  Java

UTF-8
java.vm.version: 20.6-b01-415
file.encoding.pkg: sun.io
java.runtime.version: 1.6.0_31-b04-415-11M3635
java.io.tmpdir: /var/folders/3l/yd1xg64n58l4ll7jnhvc0glm0000gq/T/
sun.jnu.encoding: MacRoman
java.class.version: 50.0
os.version: 10.7.3
file.encoding: UTF-8
java.specification.version: 1.6
java.vm.specification.version: 1.0
java.version: 1.6.0_31
file.separator: /
sun.io.unicode.encoding: UnicodeLittle
mrj.version: 1070.1.6.0_31-415

=> UTF8

And yet Netbeans' own About window shows

Product Version: NetBeans IDE 7.0.1 (Build 201107282000)
Java: 1.6.0_31; Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 20.6-b01-415
System: Mac OS X version 10.7.3 running on x86_64; MacRoman; en_US (nb)
Userdir: /Users/pixel/.netbeans/7.0

=> MacRoman

       
So this is very strange. The same program can return MacRoman in the Terminal and UTF-8 in Netbeans.
There's more to this than first appears.


AndyT (lordpixel - the cat who walks through walls)
A little bigger on the inside

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