RFR: 8353698: Output of Simple Web Server is garbled if the console's encoding is not UTF-8 [v3]

[Alan Bateman]

On Mon, 7 Apr 2025 09:25:08 GMT, Daniel Fuchs <dfuchs at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> src/jdk.httpserver/share/classes/sun/net/httpserver/simpleserver/JWebServer.java line 66:
>> 
>>> 64:         setMaxConnectionsIfNotSet();
>>> 65: 
>>> 66:         int ec = SimpleFileServerImpl.start(new PrintWriter(System.out, true), "jwebserver", args);
>> 
>> I think you are looking for stdout.encoding here.
>
> Are you suggesting changing this line @AlanBateman? The API doc of `PrintWriter(OutputStream, boolean)` says:
> 
>      * Creates a new PrintWriter from an existing OutputStream.  This
>      * convenience constructor creates the necessary intermediate
>      * OutputStreamWriter, which will convert characters into bytes using
>      * the default charset, or where {@code out} is a {@code PrintStream},
>      * the charset used by the print stream.
> 
> Isn't this what we want here?

Just paging in the changes we did in JDK 10. They are the same thing as System.out will be created to use stdout.encoding. So you can ignore my comment.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24437#discussion_r2030855966