System properties

[Michael Hall]

On May 21, 2012, at 5:13 PM, Xueming Shen wrote:

> Whether or not this is a bug depends on your locale setting.  If your locale is set to C locale,
> then the US-ASCII is the correct pick, if your locale is using UTF-8 as its encoding (I would
> assume this should be the default setting), then this property should be UTF-8. Command
> "locale" tells you your current locale setting and "locale -a" tells you all the choices. I'm
> still setting/upgrading my leopard, so I can't verify what JDK7 is doing with various locale
> settings, but I don't see any thing special in prop_md.c...

 locale
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

and a number of LC_ attributes(?) also set to en_US.UTF-8.
So file.encoding=US-ASCII would be right.
So this change is a feature not a bug, it now uses the more appropriate locale setting rather than a hardcoded MacRoman?