RFR: 8195686: ISO-8859-8-i charset cannot be decoded, should be mapped to ISO-8859-8

[Steven Loomis]

On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 05:30:41 GMT, Pratiksha.Sawant <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> I've added the "csr" label as this is adding support for "ISO8859-8-I".
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>> Naoto asked me about it but I'm not 100% sure if it's an alias or a different charset. I think this topic may require input from those more familiar with charsets in environment that require bidi processing. Or if the mappings are available then I think we can see if they are identical to ISO8859-8.
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> @AlanBateman Since the mapping is just an alias to ISO-8859-8 do we still need CSR request to be created for the pull request?

> Can't @psawant19 abandon the alias PR and use the existing ISO-8859-8 source from OpenJDK to create new ISO-8859-8-I Charset?

That would seem to be what @naotoj stated would make the API contract (concerning IANA identity) correct.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20690#issuecomment-2407442345