RFR: 8212794 IBM-964 and IBM-29626C are required for AIX default charset

Ichiroh Takiguchi takiguc at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Nov 29 13:39:59 UTC 2018


Hello Alan & Magnus.

Sorry for you confusion.
I did many copy actions and rename actions.
So you may see, I added unexpected code into non AIX platform.

I think I should not put 2 kind of modification.

For this bug id, I'll handle IBM964 and IBM33722.
(also SimpleEUCEncoder.java is required)

I'll submit code review again.

Additionally, I'll touch
make/data/charsetmapping/charsets
make/data/charsetmapping/stdcs-aix

I'll not touch
make/jdk/src/classes/build/tools/charsetmapping/Main.java
make/jdk/src/classes/build/tools/charsetmapping/SRC.java

My build machine is not so fast, after test is done.
I'll post new code.

Thanks,
Ichiroh Takiguchi

On 2018-11-28 19:10, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> On 2018-11-28 10:36, Alan Bateman wrote:
>> On 28/11/2018 09:28, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
>>> I'm quite unsatisfied with the current handling of character sets in 
>>> the build in general. :-( I'd really like to modernize it. I have a, 
>>> slightly fuzzy, laundry list of things I want to fix from a build 
>>> perspective, but I'm not sure of what "external" requirements are 
>>> coming from AIX and the general core-libs agenda regarding character 
>>> sets in general.
>>> 
>>> I think there is a good opportunity to solve many problems at the 
>>> same time here, as long as everyone agrees on what is the preferred 
>>> outcome.
>> The support in the build to configure the charsets to include in 
>> java.base on each platform has been working well. Charsets that aren't 
>> in java.base go into the jdk.charsets service provider module and that 
>> has been working well too. From the result point of view, perhaps, but 
>> definitely not from the build perspective. ;-) But yes, I understand 
>> this is functionality that should be kept.
>> One thing that we lack is some way to add charsets for specific 
>> platforms and this comes up with the IBM patches where they are 
>> looking to adding several additional IBM charsets. One starting point 
>> that we've touched on in several threads here is dropping the EBCDIC 
>> charsets from the main stream builds. Going there will need build 
>> support.
> So build support for trivially adding specific charsets to specific
> platforms? Both to java.base (for AIX) and jdk.charsets, I presume,
> then?
> 
> Can you expand on the issue of dropping ebcdic? What's the problem
> that needs build support?
> 
> /Magnus
>> 
>> 
>> -Alan



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