JDK 1.7.0_25: apps launched via double click .app with incorrect file.encoding=US-ASCII

[Fabrizio Giudici]

On Sat, 03 Aug 2013 01:59:43 +0200, Brent Christian  
<brent.christian at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hi, Fabrizio
>
> On 7/31/13 6:03 AM, Fabrizio Giudici wrote:
>> This sounds to be a similar issue to "Java 8 RFR 8011194: Apps launched
>> via double-clicked .jars have file.encoding value of US-ASCII on Mac OS
>> X": that discussion actually helped me in sorting out the problem.
>>
>> In short, I have a Mac OS X .app which is created with an embedded JRE.
>> When launched by means of "open .../App.app" by terminal all is fine. I
>> suppose this happens because I have in my termnal env:
>>
>> LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
>> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>>
>> When launched by double-clicking on the icon, the file.encoding is set
>> to US-ASCII and problems happen.
>
> Yes, this is almost certainly the same problem as 8011194.
>
>> How should I quickly fix the problem? Setting file.encoding and
>> sun.jnu.encoding to UTF-8 in the Info.plist?
>
> I think that's a good plan, yes.

It works. Thanks.

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